Lodge Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, dated 1654 as indicated by a re-set datestone. It is constructed of rendered sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The house is two storeys with an attic. The front elevation has two bays arranged nearly symmetrically. A plank door with bolt-head decoration is located on the right side of the ground floor, alongside a five-light casement window with chamfered ashlar mullions, likely dating to the 18th or 19th century and painted. To the left of the door is a three-light window with similar mullions. Painted string courses run around the building, one between the ground floor and first floor, and another between the first floor and attic, both rising over the doorway and at the centre. The first floor has three-light windows with chamfered mullions on both sides, with a central datestone bearing the Moreton crest, the initial 'B' at the upper right, and the date 1654 in the lower corners. A 20th-century lean-to porch sits on the right-hand side, concealing a 19th-century wing at ground floor level. The right-hand gable has a three-light window on the first floor and a two-light 20th-century window in the attic. The left-hand gable features a window of two and three lights divided by a king mullion on the ground floor, with a two-light 20th-century window in the gable. The rear of the house has a central projecting gabled wing, which may have originally been a porch wing. This wing has a three-light casement window with chamfered mullions on the ground floor, a similar window on the first floor, and a single-light window in the attic. Blocked openings, potentially original doorways, are located on either side of the wing on the ground floor, with a pair of French windows to the right and a three-light mullioned window at first floor level with a single light window to the attic to the left. A ground floor window of three lights with chamfered mullions is located to the left. The interior features chamfered ceiling beams on the ground floor and an ingle nook fireplace, now blocked and fitted with a 20th-century fire surround.