Farington Lodge

Farington Lodge is a house built in the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of brick with a stone plinth and stone dressings, topped by a hipped slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan with rear wings and stands two storeys tall, featuring five symmetrical bays. Notable architectural details include a stone string course, cornice, and parapet, as well as a doorcase with a rectangular fanlight and margin lights, and a porch in the Ionic order. The windows are sashed with splayed stone heads, and there are chimney stacks on the side walls for the front rooms. An extension of one bay is present at the left end of the ground floor, with a modern first-floor extension above it. The side walls feature two-storey canted bays.

Inside, the lodge boasts very elaborate plaster moulding on the friezes and cornices, which varies in design across all principal rooms, the stairwell, and the landing. Decorative motifs include anthemion and palmette in the hall and left front room, and vine patterns in the right front room. The interior also features panelled doors with a Greek Key pattern and an open well staircase with an open string, scrolled brackets, columnar newels, and coupled turned balusters. The house was once the residence of William Bashall, who was the proprietor of Farington Cotton Mill.