Garden Walls, Fruit Rooms And Glasshouse At Dunchurch Lodge

The garden walls, fruit rooms, and glasshouse at Dunchurch Lodge were built in 1908 by T H Mawson of Windermere for John Lancaster, with some alterations made in the mid-20th century. The glasshouse was restored in 1993. The structures are made of plum-coloured brick with stone dressings and feature Westmoreland slate roofs. The rectangular layout measures approximately 100 meters by 50 meters. The garden wall stands about 3 meters high and has a gabled red tile coping.

On the northwest side, the glasshouse has a gabled center with monopitch roofed side ranges. To the left, there is a smaller monopitch glasshouse, and to the right, a single-storey gabled building with continuous late 20th-century glazing. Each side features a square two-storey building with a pyramidal roof and finial. The inner side of these buildings has a door flanked by two-light casement windows, all under round relieving arches, with a three-light box dormer above. The windows have leaded glazing. The right-hand building serves as the fruit room, while the left-hand building is the gardeners' mess room and store, which includes a large external side wall stack.

The southwest wall of the complex has doorways at each end, featuring round-arched stone surrounds and keystones, topped with hipped coping. Inside, the glasshouse has a conventional wooden structure supported by iron brackets and tie rods. The fruit room and adjoining building were refitted in the late 20th century but retain part of the original stair. The mess room includes an original winder stair with splat balusters. This complex is part of an important group of estate buildings at Dunchurch Lodge.