Adcote Lodge

Adcote Lodge, dated 1879 and designed by Richard Norman Shaw, is a gate lodge built in the Domestic Revival style. It is constructed of tooled red and grey sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has a plain tile roof. The lodge is one storey and attic.

The east front features a chamfered plinth, a chamfered ground-floor string course, a chamfered first-floor cill band, and parapeted gables with chamfered coping and gabled kneelers, with a truncated finial to the left-hand gable end. A projecting red brick stack is located at the rear, incorporating a small chamfered square window, a pitched-roofed link to the attic, and a brick shaft with an oversailing top. A central raking dormer features a 3-light wooden casement. A full-height gabled square bay to the left has chamfered mullioned stone windows with a 1:2:2:1 light arrangement, including a king mullion. To the right is a ground-floor square bay with paired chamfered cross windows to the front and single lights with transoms in the returns. A central recessed porch features a double-chamfered elliptical arch that blends into the responds, with a hollow-chamfered Tudor-arched doorway and a boarded door with strap hinges. Lower eaves to the centre form a porch, supported on chamfered brackets and wall plates with shaped ends. The right-hand gable end has a three-light chamfered stone mullioned attic window. The left-hand gable end includes a ground-floor one-light chamfered stone window to the left and a central chamfered rectangular panel to the attic containing a dated shield, inscribed “18 RD 79”. The rear has a catslide roof with a change of pitch.

The interior was not inspected. The lodge is situated at the main entrance to Adcote, a significant country house built between 1876 and 1881, also by Richard Norman Shaw. Adcote is located in the Parish of Little Ness.