Lodge At Spinney Hill Park

The Lodge at Spinney Hill Park is a park keeper's lodge built around 1886 by Stockdale Harrison for Leicester Corporation. It is constructed of red brick with tile-hung gables featuring bargeboards, and has a slate roof with ornamental side stacks. Designed in a domestic revival style, the lodge is single storey with an attic and has an L-shaped plan, with a wing projecting to the right. The front faces the entrance drive and includes an open porch supported by arches and turned timber posts beneath a catslide roof.

To the left of the porch, there is a 2-light window on brackets with a flat hood above it, and a low 2-light dormer in the roof. On the projecting wing to the right, there is a 5-light canted oriel window with a pentice roof and a 3-light casement above. The tile hanging on the pentice and gable features alternate plain and scalloped tiles. The left gable mirrors this with a similar canted oriel and pentice roof.

On the right end facing St. Saviour's Road, there is a projecting stack with the lower part under a pentice roof serving two rooms, featuring a recessed arch that frames a single-light casement. The upper part of the stack has linked triple diamond flues. At the rear, there is another projecting stack with a panelled and gableted upper section. To the left of this stack, a gable features a bell hung in the apex, with a 3-light casement below, a small casement to the right, and a door and casement on the ground floor within a small walled yard that includes an outhouse.

Inside, there is a small stair with turned balusters leading to the upper part, some 4-panel doors, and a small late 19th-century fireplace in one of the bedrooms. This finely detailed and little-altered lodge reflects Leicester's pride in the creation of Spinney Hill Park.