Lodge To Welcombe Hotel

The Lodge to Welcombe Hotel is a building likely constructed in the 1840s. It is made of brick with ashlar dressings and features a fishscale tile roof with cresting and two lateral stacks that have diagonal shafts and caps. The lodge is designed in an L-shape with the gable facing and the front to the left, showcasing a Gothic style.

The front has a gabled wing to the left, with an entrance that includes a re-entrant ashlar porch supported by angle buttresses and topped with an offset parapet. The entrance features a four-centred arch with spandrels and an inner entrance that has a plank door. To the left of the entrance, there is a three-light double-chamfered-mullioned window with a label mould, and above it, a canted oriel window with a moulded base and weathered cap, both of which have decorative glazing. The gabled return displays a canted bay window with a hipped ashlar roof, flanked by a one-light window on one side and a three-light window on the other. The rear of the lodge has a single-storey addition from the 20th century.

This lodge was likely built in connection with Clopton House when both the Clopton and Welcombe estates were under the same ownership and significant construction was occurring at Clopton House. This predates the construction of Welcombe House, which was built in a Tudor style in the 1860s and 70s.