Monkey Lodge

Monkey Lodge is a lodge, now a private house, dating to the mid-to-late 18th century, with an addition made in 1814. It is constructed of red random bond brick with a slate roof. The building’s appearance varies, with the end nearest the road dating to the 19th century and the rear portion dating to the 18th century.

The road frontage features a central ground floor doorway with a gabled porch, the lower part being timber-framed with moulded posts and decorated bargeboards and bargepost. Single-light casement windows flank the porch on either side. The first floor features a two-light casement window centrally, with square plaster panels to either side. These panels have bolection-moulded surrounds containing oval panels, also with bolection moulding. The left panel depicts a mermaid playing a trumpet, while the right panel shows a mermaid combing her hair and looking in a mirror; both figures are in relief, with girdles of seaweed. The half-hipped gable above has two trapezoid panels within bolection-moulded surrounds: the left panel displays a man riding a dolphin and carrying a crossbow, and the right panel depicts a man riding a horse with a fish’s tail and carrying a trident.

On the right-hand side, a canted oriel bow extends from the ground floor, featuring a two-light casement window above. Bolection-moulded rectangular panels with oval panels to the centre are positioned to either side of the ground floor window; the right panel shows a dog, and the left panel shows a monkey playing a horn. Coats of arms are positioned to either side of the first-floor window – the left displaying the Cholmondeley coat of arms, and the half-hipped gable above featuring a panel showing a male figure in a chariot pulled by horses across the waves. To the right of this is the original 18th century section, with two ground floor cambered-headed single-light casement windows and a semi-dormer two-light casement window to the first floor. A four-light service window is located to the left, with an outshut to the right.