Dryderdale Lodge With Entrance Piers And Walls To South

Dryderdale Lodge is a private house that was originally built around 1879 by the architect Waterhouse for Alfred Backhouse. The lodge features sandstone rubble construction with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof that has stone gable copings. The structure is designed in a T shape, with the central leg facing the former drive to the south.

The south elevation is one storey high and consists of three bays, with a porch located to the right of a projecting gabled central bay. Access to the porch is via two steps leading up to a chamfered segmental-headed open arch, which is flanked by diagonal buttresses with offsets. Above this arch is a flush ashlar band and a steeply-pitched gable supported by moulded kneelers. A short catslide roof connects the porch to the central projection. Inside the porch, there is a boarded inner door that leads into the catslide section.

The front gable and the area under the catslide feature two-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows, along with a relieving arch and a slit in the peak of the gable. The left bay includes a tall corniced external chimney stack that is battered above the eaves level, while there are also corniced chimneys on the front gable ridge and on a rear external stack. The right return gable mirrors the front design.

The quadrant entrance walls are capped with low chamfered piers that have plinths, transitioning from chamfers to bands beneath low pointed octagonal coping. A 20th-century flat-roofed rear extension is present but is not considered of interest.