Park Lodge

Park Lodge is a house that was formerly two cottages and originally a farmhouse. It dates from the late 17th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th century and rebuilding in the 20th century. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with freestone dressings and features a plain tiled roof added in the 20th century. There is an ashlar ridge stack with paired shafts and a moulded cornice, along with a 20th-century north gable stack and a side stack to the west.

The house is one storey with an attic and originally had a four-unit plan with a cellar to the west and a lobby entry to the east, which is now blocked. It has three original ovolo mullioned casement windows of one, two, and three lights with a moulded cornice, along with one similar 20th-century window in a blocked doorway to the left. The main entrance is located in the west elevation, and there is a chamfered mullioned three-light cellar window in the south gable wall, as well as a replacement oriel window in the north gable wall.

Inside, the property features mitre-stop-chamfered axial and cross beams, two back-to-back open hearths with cambered mantel beams—one of which includes an inglenook—and an early 18th-century panelled door. The roof has been replaced after the original thatched roof was damaged by fire.

The farm buildings associated with the property were demolished in 1853, and the materials were transported to Proby farm. A bay window was added around 1869 when the tenant was responsible for opening the park gates to the driveway leading to Elton Hall, which replaced the farmyard.