Longford Lodge

Longford Lodge is a house built in 1894 by Barry Parker, located in Buxton. The structure is made of coursed rock-faced millstone grit with ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof and stone stacks. It stands two storeys high with attics and features a chamfered plinth.

The entrance front is irregular with three windows and a projecting gabled single window on the left. A central wooden porch, accessed by four stone steps, has a Tudor arched four-panel door with a glazing bar overlight, topped with a flat overhanging roof and a square latticed balustrade. To the right of the porch is a single three-light cross casement window. The left wing includes a three-light cross casement, a single light corner window below, and a single plain sash in the gable.

On the garden front, there is a projecting wing to the right featuring a unique canted and square bay window that projects across the junction, with a three-light and a four-light cross casement. Above this, to the left, is a stone oriel window supported by three brackets with a four-light cross casement, followed by a three-light through eaves gabled dormer window. The right corner has a two-storey square bay window that extends across the corner, with two pairs of cross casements on each floor. The left return has a single cross casement and a hipped single-storey projection, with a blank first floor above a plain sash in the right gable and a small through eaves gabled dormer to the left.

The interior has not been inspected. Longford Lodge was one of three houses originally built by Barry Parker in The Park. Of the other two, Strachur has been altered and Moorland has been demolished. These houses are believed to have been featured in Barry Parker's publications "Our Homes" (1895) and "Art of Building a Home" (1901).