The gates are flanked by twin lodges with towers and the stone piers are decorated with decorative shields, now blank, set above niches with a pair of heraldic griffins. The corners of the lodges are decorated with (from left to right): a squirrel, an owl, a bird of prey and a fierce cat. This is the earlier of the two entrances to Sennowe Hall, whose animal sculpture underlines that Skipper brought a team of Italian sculptors to the work, which began around 1906, responsible for the façade sculpture, and the Lion in the park (NFnnMNR001). The building material must have been brought to the station nearby at Great Ryburgh on the Wymondham to Wells section of the Great Eastern railway line.