Cumberworth Lodge And Screen Wall Adjoining To North

Cumberworth Lodge is a house, now a residential home, dating from the mid-18th century with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of brick, rendered to the front and sides and whitewashed throughout, with a concrete tile roof to the front and Welsh slates to the rear. The building has a double-depth plan, comprising an L-shaped original section with a two-room, central entrance hall facing west; a single-room wing to the rear right; a lower range in the angle; and an infill and raised section to the rear left, added in the 19th century.

The principal facade is symmetrical with three bays and two storeys. A chamfered plinth sits beneath a C19 flat-roofed Doric porch, featuring a pair of unicorn heads at the angles, a plain frieze and a moulded cornice attached to the wall. The porch front is a late C19, two-fold, half-glazed, six-panelled door, set within a contemporary panelled surround with margin lights. Large, unequal tripartite sash windows with glazing bars are on either side of the entrance, each beneath a hood mould. Above, the first floor features a central, unequal 20-pane sash flanked by unequal 24-pane sashes, also beneath similar hood moulds. A coved cornice runs along the top of the facade, and stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers finish the roof. Rebuilt end stacks from the 19th and 20th centuries are present. A stone-coped screen wall ramps down to the left.

The right return, facing the street, displays three 24-pane flush sashes to the ground floor, the central one obscured by a 20th-century addition. A C19 canted wooden oriel window with wooden brackets, glazing bars, a dentilled cornice and a hood is present to the front range, and an unequal 20-pane sash is visible to the rear range. A similar oriel window is fitted to the left return. The rear elevation is three storeys high and features a part-glazed door to the right of centre, and unequal sashes with glazing bars in flush wooden surrounds to each floor, culminating in a stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice and a hipped roof.

The interior showcases a fine, early to mid-18th century open-well staircase with a ramped and wreathed corniced handrail, alternating twist and column-on-vase balusters with square knops, column newel posts, a heavy twist foot-newel post with a gadrooned capital, profiled cheek-pieces and fielded panelling to the underside. A secondary staircase to the rear right has plain stick balusters and turned newels. The ground-floor room to the left contains an early 19th century pilastered grey marble chimney-piece, flanked by early to mid-18th century alcoves with fielded-panel doors to the lower sections and fluted pilasters carrying a heavy moulded cornice. The ground floor room to the right has a moulded dado rail and a wooden chimney-piece, possibly inserted, with a bolection moulding and a frieze featuring a carved floral design. The rear right room boasts an early 19th century carved wooden chimney-piece with reeded pilasters, a frieze with festoons and egg-and-dart moulding, and a pair of inserted scagliola brown marble columns with ornate Corinthian capitals. Moulded cornices decorate the first floor. Four and six-fielded-panel doors with H and L hinges are set within architraves and fielded-panel reveals.