Squirrel Hayes Lodge

Squirrel Hayes Lodge is a lodge, now a dwelling, dating to approximately 1860, with minor alterations in the 20th century. Designed by landscape architect Edward Cooke for James Bateman of Biddulph Grange. Constructed of regularly-coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, it features coped gables with moulded kneelers, a central ridge stack with four defined flues, and a rear stack with a diagonally-set shaft. The building has a shallow L-plan with a gable facing the road and a small service courtyard to the rear.

The east elevation has two storeys, with the upper storey projecting as a continuous jetty, and comprises three bays, including an advanced two-storeyed porch at the centre. The doorway is topped with a four-centred arched lintel featuring an integral hood mould with label stops, a quoined surround, and a 20th-century integral fanlight. The side walls of the porch contain single lancet lights. The first floor of the porch has a single light to the gable, again beneath a hood mould with label stops. A two-light mullioned window is located to the left bay, and a single light opening to the right, all windows featuring plain 20th-century joinery. The gable to the north has a two-light mullioned window to the ground floor within a quoined surround, and a two-light window below a hood mould on the first floor. The lodge was built to serve the carriage drive from Biddulph Grange to Judgefield Lane.

The other building described, an estate cottage or lodge, likely dates to the mid-19th century. Constructed of coursed stone with a blue machine tile roof, it features verge parapets on corbelled kneelers with apex finials and a central ashlar chimney with four grouped shafts. It is two storeys high and features a corbelled-out first floor on stone blocks, with a 1:1:1 front and a central gabled porch projection. A two-light mullioned window is present to the ground floor left, and a single light to the right, with a labelled single light to the first floor over a Tudor-arched entrance and a 20th-century panelled door. Two-light mullioned windows are to the side elevation, and similar dressed treatment completes all elevations. It was possibly intended to be a lodge to the early home and park of John Bateman at Knypersley Hall, although this was never implemented.