Steeple Lodge

Steeple Lodge is a lodge built around 1775 for the 2nd Earl of Strafford. It is constructed from coursed, squared sandstone and features a 20th-century cement-tile roof. The design resembles a church, with a three-stage tower next to the drive leading to Wentworth Castle, and a single-storey wing on the opposite side. The lodge is designed in the Gothick style.

On the roadside elevation, the tower has diagonal buttresses with ashlar quoins and offsets. It includes a pointed two-light window with wooden Y-tracery glazing bars, and plain-band hoodmoulds above this window and a glazed quatrefoil window located above it. There is a tall second-storey window with two lights and stone Y-tracery, along with an ashlar band beneath an embattled parapet that features diagonally-set corner pinnacles.

To the left of the tower, there is a crow-stepped lean-to addition that connects to the embattled single-storey wing, which has a Y-tracery casement window in a pointed ashlar surround. A matching window is located in the lean-to addition on the far left. The rear of the lodge has an ogee-headed doorway leading into the lean-to against the tower, and the right return features a similar doorway to the lower stage. The interior is not of special interest. Steeple Lodge is an important building within the Wentworth Castle estate, designed to enhance the former service entrance.