Langwith Lodge

Langwith Lodge is a house, now a hospital, built in 1904 by Louis Ambler for the Duke of Portland's agent. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof. The building is characterised by two projecting gable wings and two ridge stacks, made of red brick and ashlar. An ashlar cornice runs around the building, above a plinth and quoins. The design is Neo-Georgian, and the house has an H-plan. It is two storeys high plus an attic, and has eleven bays in total. The three bays on each side project and are gabled, featuring an ashlar band forming a pediment. The central bay, slightly projecting, has a smaller pedimented gable. A single-storey, central porch has a panelled door with a glazed fanlight, set within a rusticated ashlar surround, and an open segmental hood supported on stone brackets. Flanking the door are fixed marginal lights. Above the porch are two arched sashes. Single-storey canted bays with moulded ashlar cornices are located in each of the projecting wings, each featuring three sashes. A central Venetian window with sashes is positioned above the canted bay. To the left are two arched glazing bar casements in original openings, and to the right, two arched sashes. Each projecting wing also has a single arched sash flanked by smaller, similar sashes. A glazing bar oeil de boeuf window is located in the pediment of the central bay. The outer pediments each have a Venetian window with sashes. Four roof dormers are present, each having a segmental wooden pediment and a single sash. All sashes have glazing bars. The interior retains original fireplaces, some panelled doors, and rooms. The open-well staircase features iron twist balusters with carved tread ends, and the wall side is panelled with regular, small, decorated, fluted pilasters.