Gatehouse, No 30 Low Hills Lane, Lindley.

This unusual building marked the entrance to James Nield Sykes’ Fieldhead estate (now built over). It provided coachman’s accommodation of parlour and kitchen with two bedrooms above. The bedrooms are on different levels to allow for the height of the archway, and a spiral staircase in the asymmetrically-placed turret gives access to a small roof balcony. Art Nouveau influences can be seen in the tapered slit windows in the massive oak gates, and in the hinges of the house door within the arch. It is probably that the keystone above this door, and the flat pilaster-like areas in the gables were intended to have decorative carving, [Edgar Wood Heritage Group (Yorkshire)]

According to the Listing Notice the gatehouse was to serve a house projected but never built. It is uncertain if this statement is correct; the 1905 O.S. map shows the track through the gatehouse continuing eastwards to Field Head. Perhaps Sykes intended to build himself a new mansion on land between the gatehouse and Field Head, but this never came to fruition as Sykes died in 1903.