North Lodge And Attached Flanking Walls At Bilton Grange

North Lodge and attached flanking walls are a lodge built around 1861 in a style imitating that of A.W. Pugin, commissioned for John Lancaster. A rear addition was made around 1900. The lodge is constructed of red brick with ashlar and blue brick dressings, incorporating the initials JL. The roofs are covered with fish-scale tiles in bands, with coped gables to the front and decorative crests throughout. The stacks are shouldered, clustered and have crenellated caps. The building has a plinth and extends over two storeys, with four bays. The original windows, mostly metal casements with glazing bars, have stone surrounds and mullions.

The front features a projecting gabled wing to the right, accentuated by diagonal buttresses. A moulded Tudor arched gateway, composed of two orders with a hood mould, provides access, leading to a pair of original panelled wooden gates with ramped tops. Above the gate, the Lancaster coat of arms is flanked by single lights with pointed arched openings under a linked hood mould. A similar arch and windows are found at the rear. Below the arch is a brick vault with moulded stone ribs and boss, and a Tudor arched door. To the left of the gateway, there’s a two-light window on each floor, the lower featuring a label mould. Further left, an intermediate buttress leads to a flush gable with a two-light window below and a four-light window above, both traceried with label moulds. Beyond this is a yard wall extending to single-storey outbuildings. The left gable exhibits composite casements dating to around 1900. At the rear, adjacent to the archway, is a three-stage, half-round stair turret with single-light windows and a rounded hipped roof with finials.

The rear addition is red brick with imitation timber framing, pebbledash panels, and tile-hung gables to the first floor. It's two storeys high with three bays; windows are mostly original wooden casements with glazing bar toplights. The centre features a cross casement, flanked by projecting gabled bays with canted ground floors, each with three windows, and above, four-light windows. To the left, there’s a canted bay window of four lights, with a two-light window above. The left return, facing the drive, mirrors this design with a similar bay window and a four-light window above.

Inside, the original dogleg stair includes a landing with a shaped balustrade at the foot, turned balusters, and matchboard panelling. The addition incorporates a ground floor room with a cornice, a five-panel door, and a fireplace with an overmantel and dentilated cornice.

Outside, to the left, a convex, curved flanking wall, approximately 150 metres long, has chamfered terracotta coping and a square terminal pier with a stone cap. To the right, a single-storey outbuilding and a similarly curved flanking wall, about 75 metres long, complete the scene with matching coping and end pier.