English Lodge

English Lodge is an entrance lodge dated 1849, likely designed by Thomas Jones of Chester, who lived from 1794 to 1859. The building is constructed from roughly squared and coursed Alberbury breccia with red sandstone ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. It has a T-plan layout and is designed in the Tudor Gothic style, comprising one storey and an attic.

Architectural details include a chamfered plinth, a moulded stone eaves cornice, ridge cresting, and parapeted gables with chamfered stone coping, moulded kneelers, and globe finials. There are external lateral brick stacks on the east side, consisting of two octagonal brick shafts with ashlar bases and moulded caps, as well as an external end stack at the apex of the north gable, featuring a circular brick shaft with an octagonal ashlar base and moulded cap.

The windows are double-chamfered stone mullioned with Tudor-arched lights, some of which retain cast-iron small-paned casements and returned hoodmoulds. On the west (entrance) front, there is a ground-floor one-light window to the right, a central two-storey gabled porch with an attic one-light window, and a boarded door with a chamfered Tudor arch and moulded square surround. The porch also has a returned hoodmould with plain stops. The south front features a canted stone oriel window in the attic with a moulded cill string and cornice, as well as a chamfered base and top, and a date inscription, along with a three-light ground-floor window. The north gable end has two-light windows on each floor, and there is a one-storey lean-to at the rear.

This lodge serves as the south-east entrance to Loton Park, where Thomas Jones undertook work around 1830 and 1838.