Bath Lodge

Bath Lodge is probably an early to mid-18th century folly or hunting lodge, altered subsequently. Built of red brick in Flemish bond with cement render dressings and a stone slate roof, it has a double-depth rectangular plan. The building is in the Gothick style.

The symmetrical two-storey, three-bay building has a striking outline due to its high stepped and embattled gable parapets. The south-east facade features a broad cement-rendered band, a saw-tooth band to a deep moulded brick cornice, and a giant two-centred rendered blank arch in the centre. This central arch has intersecting arched and curvilinear tracery on two levels, with similar rendered two-centred blank arches at ground floor of the flanking bays, and rendered blind oculi above, featuring quadrant tracery, all of which is square in section and boldly treated. The north-west facade is similar in appearance. A former central chimney stack has since collapsed. The gable walls have pilasters, cornices like the front and rear, and tall embattled parapets; the north-east gable has two giant rendered arches, and the south-west gable contains a ground floor doorway flanked by eils-de-boeuf and rendered arches at first floor.

Internally, the lodge contains small rooms and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.

Bath Lodge is historically associated with the former Cross Hall and with former kennels for hounds located nearby.