Blythe Lodge

Blythe Lodge is a railway crossing-keeper's house built around 1839 by the Stonebridge Junction Railway Company. It is constructed from rock-faced red sandstone with ashlar quoins and features a Welsh slate roof with coped gable ends, corbelled kneelers, and a modillion eaves cornice. The building has red brick chimney stacks.

The lodge has a rectangular plan with a porch on the left side and a stair turret at the rear left corner, designed in a Gothic style. It stands two storeys tall and has an asymmetrical three-bay front. The gabled two-storey porch on the left includes a corbelled arch, a string course above a plaque, and a lancet window with cusped ogee heads. To the right, there are one and two-light lancet windows on the ground floor and in the gable ends, with cusped diamond-shaped panels in the apexes of the gables. The windows are iron lattice casements.

The octagonal stair turret at the rear left corner is divided into three stages, featuring loops at the base and middle stages, and lancets at the top stage, topped with a crenellated parapet, corbel heads, and a stone roof with a ball finial. There is a small gable at the rear with a lancet window and a 20th-century single-storey outshut.

Inside, there is a stone newel staircase in the turret and ledged doors with cambered heads. Blythe Lodge was originally known as Maxstoke Lodge because it was built on the western approach to Maxstoke Castle.