Lodge Farmhouse

Lodge Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1779, built for John, Bishop of Durham. It incorporates earlier fabric, with extensive alterations in 1779 that enveloped the original structure and extended it to the right, leaving earlier quoins visible only on the rear wall. There is also a later small pent outshut on the left rear. The building is constructed of coursed squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, featuring quoins with herringbone tooling. The roof is made of concrete tiles with rendered chimneys.

The front elevation is symmetrical and follows a T plan, standing two storeys tall with five windows. The central three bays project forward under a pediment that contains an inscription in well-cut Roman capitals: "JOHNDUNELM/ANNODOM/MDCCLXXIX." There is an apron beneath the inscription panel. A first-floor band is interrupted by a high central round-headed arch, which has stepped voussoirs and is filled with coarser darker stone, containing a renewed door under a flat stone lintel. Above this is an oculus with radiating glazing bars and a painted ashlar surround. The windows are sashes with 19th-century glazing bars, most of which have flat stone lintels. Tall, round-headed windows with springing and top keystones flank a keyed arch with voussoirs, which rises through two storeys in the central projection. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped.

Inside, the farmhouse features stick balusters on the dogleg stair in the central bay, some window shutters, 19th-century chimney pieces, and a transverse rear passage. The inscription on the building refers to John Egerton, Bishop of Durham from 1771 to 1787.