Keepers Lodge And Attached Wall

Keepers Lodge and attached wall date to 1868 and are located on Sandy Lane in Lathom. The lodge is built of coursed rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has a stone slate roof. It is designed in a Jacobean style and follows an L-plan, with a single-depth main range running parallel to the road, a rear wing to the right, and a courtyard enclosed by a screen wall. The lodge is single-storey, with two bays of unequal width and an asymmetrical facade. It features a chamfered plinth and steeply-pitched roofs with raised ridged gable copings and kneelers. A prominent gabled porch, offset to the right, has a shouldered moulded ashlar surround, a studded board door with strap hinges, a carved shield in the gable, and single-light windows with double-chamfered surrounds and diamond lattice glazing with coloured margin panes. To the left are two two-light mullioned windows with similarly styled surrounds and altered glazing. A ridge chimney is present. The right-hand gable features a disproportionately large rectangular mullion-and-transom bay window with a coped parapet, and a plaque inscribed "1868" is set into the gable above. The one-bay rear wing is in a similar style. A full-height screen wall encloses the rear courtyard. The lodge forms a group with Robinson's Farmhouse on Cranes Lane to the north-east.