Tantara Lodge

Tantara Lodge is a sandstone lodge dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, situated at the eastern entrance to Stoneleigh Deer Park. It has a steeply pitched roof covered in plain tiles, with stone coped gable ends facing the road. The lodge features a central carriage arch composed of three splayed orders, topped with a hood mould. Above the archway is a window with two trefoil lights, tracery in a pointed arch, and a hood mould. To the right of the archway is a lodge keeper’s cottage, with an entrance from within the archway. On the road-facing elevation, at ground floor level is a four-light mullion and transom window, and above, at first floor level, a two-trefoil light window with tracery in a round arch and a hood mould. Large, stepped buttresses are present at both ends of the lodge. Inside the archway is a rib vaulted ceiling, and to the left is a recessed seat with an ogee head and hood mould. Sandstone flanking walls are positioned to the left and right of the lodge.