The Lodge

The Lodge is a lodge cottage built around 1835 by W A Nicholson, designed in a Neo-Jacobean style. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with ashlar coped gables, moulded kneelers, and finials. The building has a single white brick and two moulded ashlar wall stacks, a moulded chamfered plinth, flush quoins, and a first-floor moulded band.

This single-storey plus attic structure has a cross plan. The east front has a single bay gable with a three-light window and a two-light window above, both with dripmoulds. The south front features a recessed right wing with a doorway and a single light window, set behind a projecting triple arched loggia. The loggia is supported by square Roman Doric columns and has moulded round arches with carved shields in the spandrels. Above it is a moulded cornice topped with square moulded finials that have strapwork brackets and ball tops.

At the rear, there is an ashlar gabled single light dormer with an ornate curved gable, moulded coping, and a finial. To the left, a projecting gable has an ashlar bay window, which is square with four lights below and canted with two lights above, topped with an entablature and ornate strapwork finials. Further left is a two-light window with a two-light gabled dormer above. The west side features a five-sided apsidal front. All the windows have ornate iron casements set in ashlar recessed and chamfered mullion surrounds. This building is part of the complete estate village created by the Chaplin family of Blankney Hall.