Brindle Lodge

Brindle Lodge is a house, now serving as a Health Authority staff college, built around 1808 for William Heatley. The building is primarily constructed of sandstone ashlar, with some red brick at the rear, and features a low hipped slate roof that is concealed by a parapet. It has an L-plan layout, consisting of a double-depth front range and a rear service wing. The house is two storeys high and designed in a classical style, with a plinth, a band, a modillioned cornice, and a plain parapet.

At the centre of the façade, there are four steps leading up to a wide porch supported by unfluted Ionic columns and an entablature. This porch protects a tripartite doorway that also features similar columns and responds, topped with a very large elliptical fanlight adorned with tracery. The ground floor has six tall sashed windows, while the upper floor has seven, all without glazing bars. The right return wall has four similar windows on each floor, with the first window on the ground floor being blind. The service wing, which is set back and slightly lower, matches the style of the main building and has three windows on each floor. The rear of this wing, made of red brick in Flemish bond, features a central round-headed door with a Tuscan architrave and fanlight, a round-headed stairlight above, and other less significant openings.

Inside, the principal feature of interest is the circular entrance hall, which includes a geometrical stone staircase with elegant curvilinear iron balusters and a glass domed skylight surrounded by a moulded plaster frieze. The doorways throughout the interior have classical architraves of various designs, and the ceilings are adorned with moulded plaster, likely from the later 19th century.