Clare Lodge

Clare Lodge is a Victorian Gothic house dating from around the 1860s, although some sources suggest it was built around 1850 and designed by E Browning for himself. The house is constructed of ashlar, with massed concrete forming the base and likely continuing behind the ashlar facing. It has a gabled roof covered in Collyweston stone with wide eaves. The plan is asymmetrical.

The right-hand range is two storeys high with a basement, and features a projecting timber-framed gable with collar beam and shaped brackets, alongside round-arched bracing. This gable supports a corbelled first-floor balcony with a wooden balustrade. A ground-floor balcony is also present, with moulded corbels to the lintel and a pierced stone balustrade. A large wood mullion/transom window and a 4-centred arch doorway with tracery are also visible. Stone mullion windows are on the left of this range, with ogee-headed lights on the ground floor.

The left-hand range is lower, with two storeys and an attic set back. It features projecting timber-framed gables, battlements, a canted bay, and stone mullion windows. A notable detail is three ogee-headed lancet windows leading to the stairs and a large gabled timber-framed porch. The chimneys are ashlar, with set-offs, rodonsed angles and carved cornices. At the rear, a two-storey bowed window with a conical roof is incorporated into a gable. A small 2-light pointed arch window with reticulated tracery, which appears to be imported and re-used, is set within a gabled projection.