Roundhouse at Forest Lodge

The Roundhouse at Forest Lodge is a former lodge built in the late 18th century, which was converted into a gardener’s cottage around 1936 based on designs by Robert Lowry FRIBA for Francis Egerton Pegler. It is now a house.

The building features a clay tile roof, red brick walls, a red brick chimneystack, and leaded casement windows. It has an octagonal plan with a rectangular porch that projects from the west side, which was replaced around 2017.

The one-and-a-half storey house has a central octagonal red-brick chimneystack and a steeply-sloped plain clay tile roof. Each slope of the roof has a dormer window clad with hanging clay tiles, introduced around 1936. The ground floor walls are made of red brick laid in Scottish bond. A gabled porch was added to the west elevation around 2017, replacing a late 20th-century porch, and features a replacement timber-panelled door with a metal-framed overlight from around 1936. The east elevation has a blocked door opening, which previously had a porch shown on the 1886 and 1899 OS maps. The pointed-arch metal-framed casement windows on the ground floor date from around 1806, while the first-floor leaded casement windows from around 1936 were replaced with pointed-arch timber-framed casements around 2017.

Inside, the ground floor was reconfigured around 1936 and includes a living room on the west side, a corridor leading east to a stair, a dining room to the south (formerly a kitchen), and a kitchen to the north (formerly a scullery). The dining room retains an Art-Deco style fireplace from around 1936, which has been covered for safety reasons. The U-plan stair, added around 1936, features a plain concrete closed balustrade and leads to a first-floor landing that includes a main bedroom to the west, a bathroom to the north (previously a linen cupboard), and a second bedroom to the south. The internal doors were replaced around 2017, matching the style of the 1930s doors they replaced.