The Lodge

The Lodge is a gate lodge for a country house, built between 1862 and 1864 by Thomas Hine for Reverend G.G. Hunter. It is constructed of red brick with limestone dressings and features a plain clay tile hipped roof with a moulded stone eaves cornice. There is a brick lateral stack at the rear topped with yellow clay pots. The building has a two-room plan main range with a central entrance lobby and staircase, along with service rooms in a single-storey outshut and yard at the back. Designed in the High Victorian Gothic style, it is one storey with an attic.

The south-west front is symmetrical with two windows, featuring a band of blue tiles above the stone windows. The first-floor windows are located in hipped half-dormers, all fitted with casements. A large central porch, with a hipped roof that breaks the eaves, has large stone cusped arches supported by slim columns with foliate capitals. The doorway is a moulded round arch with a plank door that has wrought iron hinges. On the left-hand (north-west) end, there is a large stone bay with cusped lights, where the corners are supported by thin columns with foliate capitals, and the end lights are splayed back behind the columns. The right-hand (south-east) end features two-light windows similar to those at the front, with the first-floor window also in a hipped half-dormer.

At the rear, there is a lateral stack rising from the back wall, a small half-dormer to the right, and a small walled back yard. The outshut has been replaced by a 20th-century single-storey flat roof extension within the walled yard. Inside, there are various late 19th-century cast-iron chimney pieces with grates in the chambers and the right-hand ground floor room. This lodge served Cranfield Court, which was also built by Thomas Hine in the same years and was demolished in 1934.