The Lodge

The Lodge is a gate lodge built in 1875, designed in the Jacobethan style. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, comprising a main two-room range and a forward-projecting single-room wing to the left, along with an entrance porch and stair turret at the angle.

The north front is two storeys high with irregularly spaced windows. It has quoins and a chamfered ashlar plinth. Steps lead up to a recessed board door with ornate strap hinges, set in a chamfered ashlar surround. Above the door is a cogged brick frieze and a moulded ashlar cornice, which features a carved ashlar strapwork motif.

To the right, the stair turret has narrow single-light ashlar windows and a moulded stringcourse. The eaves cornice is cogged brick. The left wing includes a ground floor ashlar canted bay window with a wooden cross-mullion window at the front, flanked by single lights beneath an ashlar cornice and moulded stringcourse. The first floor has a cross-mullion window set in a hollow-chamfered ashlar reveal, topped with an ashlar cornice and a carved strapwork motif.

The building is adorned with shaped gables featuring shaped kneelers and ashlar finials, positioned on corbelled shafts. The roof is swept with decorative slates and crested ridge-tiles, while the stair turret has a conical roof topped with a wrought-iron finial. There are partly-projecting corniced lateral stacks on the left return and rear, with twin diamond-shafted corniced stacks. The left and right returns have similar architectural details, with the right return showcasing a square ashlar ground floor bay window, and the left return facing Barton Street features a first-floor window with a broken ashlar pediment and an ornate date plaque above.