The Lodge

The Lodge is a country house, likely dating from 1783, although it incorporates an earlier core. It was designed by Thomas Symonds of Hereford. The house is constructed of painted stone ashlar, with a parapeted, part-hipped slate roof and part-rendered brick ridge and end stacks. It is in a Late Classical style, featuring a channelled rusticated plinth, corner pilasters, storey bands, and a cornice.

The two-storey, attic, and basement house has a five-window entrance front arranged in a 1:3:1 layout, with the central section slightly advanced. This section has 4/4:6/6:4/4 sash windows above a Roman Doric porch, supported by four columns and featuring an entablature with a triglyph and paterae frieze and a balustrade. The central first-floor window has console brackets and a swagged frieze, and above this, the parapet is swept up to create a frontispiece with 2/2:3/3:2/2 sash windows and four balls. Flanking the central section are windows with 6/6 sashes and moulded architraves; the ground floor sashes are adorned with husk swags. A flight of steps leads to the porch, which has glazed double doors and 2/4 sash windows inside, and balustrades beneath the sashes and to the sides. Basement windows are present, along with ornamental semicircular openings beneath the porch. The returned fronts have three- and four-window ranges, each with 6/6 sash windows and a canted bay, featuring a plinth, balustrades below the windows, and a balustraded parapet. Dormers with two lights are set behind the main roof parapet. A single-storey service range connects to the stables (listed separately) behind the left front, and a projecting range with a simple canted bay and two 6/6 sashes over is located behind the right front, along with a further single-storey wing.

The interior includes a fine cantilevered stone staircase with lyre-patterned cast-iron balusters and fireplaces with scrolled consoles on fluted Ionic columns.