Lodge Farmhouse

Lodge Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse dating to the early to mid-16th century, with earlier and late 17th-century additions and alterations around 1800. The structure has rendered infill between timber framing on a rubble base, with some rendered rubble walling and replacement brick walling, and a machine-tiled roof topped by a large rendered ridge stack. Originally comprising two framed bays aligned north-west/south-east, the original part consisted of the central and north-west bays, with a central chimney creating a lobby entrance. A third bay was added in the early 17th century and has an external rendered chimney at its gable end. Further additions in the late 17th century include a porch wing, a north-west lean-to, and a rear stair wing with flanking outshuts having catslide roofs. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a cellar.

The main building’s timber framing features two rows of close-set studs per storey. The first floor of the north-east elevation of the original two bays is jettied on a chamfered bressummer and moulded brackets; this jetty continues at the north-west end, and the gable above has a collar and tie-beam truss with close-set struts. The later 17th-century additions have square panels, while the wings feature three rows of studs from sill to wall-plate, and the lean-tos have two rows. The north-east front elevation mainly has 19th-century casement windows. The left bay has a pair of two-light windows under a plank weathering, and the right bay has a three-light latticed window on the ground floor. Three windows of two lights, one per bay, are on the first floor. The main entrance, now in the central bay, has an early 19th-century door with four flush panels and a transom light with a central glazing bar. The porch wing to the right of the entrance has a four-panelled door on its left side and a single-light casement on its right side. The north-west lean-to has a two-light window in its north-east end.

Inside, the roof displays queen-post trusses with V-struts above the collar and through-purlins. The central bay now serves as an entrance hall, leading to the rear stair wing and its early 17th-century open well staircase, featuring square newels with shaped finials. The sill of a 16th-century oriel window is visible on the south-west side. A ground floor room in the 17th-century bay has hollow stop-chamfered main ceiling beams with three plaster panels between them, each panel having moulded borders.