Main Lodge, Lawnswood Cemetery

The Main Lodge at Lawnswood Cemetery, originally built as the registrar's house around 1876 by George Corson, is a Grade II listed building. It was enlarged in 1915 by WS Braithwaite. The lodge is constructed from coursed squared gritstone with a red tile roof and is designed in the Vernacular Revival style. It has two storeys, with the upper storey located in the roof, and features an L-plan layout. The entrance bay has a low hipped roof and a four-panel door on the left. The central entrance is flanked by a left gabled bay that projects as a short wing, which contains two cross windows on the ground floor and a three-light mullioned window above. A sundial inscribed with the date '1907' is located in the gable. The building has a tall four-flue stack with cylindrical shafts on the left and a two-flue stack on the right, positioned at the rear of the ridge. The right side features a large six-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected. George Corson designed the lodge to include a board room, a retiring room, and a 'dead house,' along with outbuildings at the main entrance to the cemetery in 1875. The 1907 date indicates that there may have been extensive reordering of the building, possibly by the architect of the 1905 crematorium.