Springwood Cottage

Springwood Cottage is a hunting lodge, converted to a keeper's cottage, built around 1820, probably by the Fowlers of Winterton for the Winn Estate. A first floor and outshut to the rear were added before 1870. The right wing was re-rendered and pebble-dashed in the 20th century.

The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and brick with pebble-dash, yellow brick and sandstone ashlar dressings, and yellow brick stacks. The later first-floor rear section is of red brick. It is roofed in slate. The plan is T-shaped, with a five-room east entrance front comprising a central octagonal room flanked by two-room wings with rear passages, and a two-room rear wing with kitchen outshut to the rear right.

The east front is single-storey with five bays, symmetrically arranged. A wider central projecting canted bay contains a projecting enclosed porch with recessed two-fold half-glazed panelled door and Gothick overlight in a pointed arch beneath a stucco hood-mould, itself beneath a moulded ashlar cornice and yellow brick crenellations with gabled ashlar coping. Single cross-shaped arrow-slits flank the porch. The flanking canted sections have pointed two-light casements with Gothick heads beneath stucco hood-moulds. The wings have central recessed bays with pointed two-light casements with glazing bars and Gothick heads, flanked by pointed single-light windows with glazing bars. All windows are set in reveals with stucco sills; those to the left wing have stucco hood-moulds. The moulded ashlar cornice, yellow brick crenellations, and gabled ashlar coping run across the front. Two axial stacks to the rear wing have banded and corniced diamond-shafted chimneys with twin shafts to the front and four shafts to the rear. The left and right returns of the wings have recessed central sections, the left one containing a blind pointed panel with sill and hood-mould. The rear wing has two pointed windows and an elliptically-arched recess to the rear left, probably a former carriage entrance, containing a pointed panel with a twelve-pane sliding sash.

The interior features the octagonal room, known as the Lunch Room for shooting parties. This has an octapartite-vaulted plaster ceiling with a central rose and moulded ribs supported on moulded wood and plaster corbels with carved whorls at the bases. Pointed recesses to each wall have shafted architraves with moulded bases and capitals. A carved pine Gothick chimneypiece to the rear recess has a moulded four-centred arch with foliate carving to the spandrels, flanked by shafts with moulded octagonal bases and foliate capitals, and carved paterae to the frieze with arrow-loops and coped crenellations to the top. Pairs of two-fold panelled doors to either side have architraves of twin miniature shafts and Gothick panelling above with tracery of similar twin attached shafts with carved capitals and bases. Similar architraves and tracery appear at the windows and main entrance. The room contains good fitted Gothick-style oak furniture. The entrance lobby has a panelled dado and similar shafted architraves and Gothick tracery to the inner and outer doors. A blocked domed cellar lies beneath.

A series of dates is inscribed to the rear of the central parapet, the earliest reading "Holt 1820". This is an unusual and distinguished building with good detailing. Both the house and its fittings may be by William or Joseph Fowler of Winterton, known practitioners in the Gothick style who worked for Winn at Appleby in the 1820s.