Master'S Lodge At Holgate'S Hospital

The Master's Lodge at Holgate's Hospital is a building dating from around 1860, serving as the lodge for almshouses known as Holgate's Hospital. It is constructed of brick with sandstone dressings and has a tiled roof. The building has a long rectangular shape with a rear service wing and features a mix of Tudor-revival and Gothic styles, although it is primarily designed in a plain, utilitarian manner.

The lodge is two storeys tall with attics and consists of six bays across the front. The south elevation includes a gabled first bay, a gabled two-storey third bay, and a gabled attic dormer in the fifth bay. The entrance is located in the second bay and is sheltered by a porch supported by three stilted arches on short columns with crocketed capitals. The central archway is higher and recessed, featuring a hoodmould that extends as a band. Above the entrance, a crow-stepped parapet rises to a steeply-pitched gable with a stepped apex.

To the left of the porch, the gabled first bay has an extruded chimney stack and one window on the ground floor. To the right of the porch, the two-storey bay has a large tripartite window at ground level, with a drip band above it, and a large square window on the first floor, topped by a steeply-pitched gable with stone coping and kneelers. The remaining windows are vertical-rectangular, with one or two lights, and there is a small arched attic window in the fourth bay. All windows have had their glazing altered. The roof is steeply pitched with fish-scale bands, and there are chimneys at the left gable and on the ridge, both featuring raised bands and cornices.

The left return wall has two two-storey bays; the left bay is rectangular with a steeply-pitched gable, while the right bay is canted with a steeply-pitched hipped roof. There are two bands at the first floor and a saw-toothed eaves band. The glazing has been altered except in the ground floor of the left bay, which retains coupled four-pane sashes.

The interior has not been inspected but is reported to contain interesting features, including a Tudor-style staircase. The lodge is included for its group value with Holgate's Hospital.