The Old Lodge

The Old Lodge is a defensible house, likely dating from the late medieval period, associated with the Neville family of Raby Castle. It features late 19th-century porches and is constructed from coursed pinkish coarse sandstone rubble, with quoins, a boulder plinth, and ashlar dressings. The building has an L-plan layout and stands three storeys high with two wide bays. There is a one-storey, one-bay extension set back to the left and a rear porch.

On the south elevation, there is a partly-glazed door located to the right of the centre, framed by a chamfered irregular-block surround. Flanking this door are paired windows with lattice leading, while the upper floors display irregular fenestration with two rectangular lights in chamfered surrounds. The building is topped with an embattled parapet that sits on a concave-moulded string, featuring corbelled machicolation over the door and an octagonal stone chimney positioned at the centre of the left bay.

The left extension includes a filleted boarded door in the inner return of the porch, which projects forward on the left side, along with paired 19th-century sash windows on the right. The left return of the main block shows signs of a former external stone stair, indicated by a part plinth, butt join, and diagonal mark, with a hollow-chamfered window above. The left return of the extension has a boulder plinth, except at the porch, and the gable features chamfered coping raised at the apex. The right return of the main block has one window on each upper floor.

At the rear, there is a blocked two-light window on the ground floor opposite the door, a small light to the left on the first floor, and a blocked second-floor light. A corbelled chimney is located to the left of centre on the second floor. The rear wing has three inserted windows and an embattled porch in the inner return, which has a stop-chamfered low two-centred-arched surround leading to a studded door.

The interior is reported to include a stone-arched fireplace on the ground floor that measures 10 feet wide and 6 feet deep, along with a two-storey upper floor featuring a gallery.