Great Lodge

Great Lodge is a house built in the early 17th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and features a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has an L-shaped plan with single-span wings extending to the north and east. There is an axial stack in the north wing, an internal stack at the junction against the south elevation, and a 19th-century internal stack further east against the south elevation, which blocks an original window.

On the east elevation of the north wing, there is a single-storey lean-to extension with a hipped slate roof. The house has two storeys and attics. The west elevation has, on the ground floor, one early 19th-century tripartite sash window with 4-12-4 lights and one early 19th-century sash window with 24 lights. The first floor features four early 19th-century sash windows with 12 lights each. There is one plain door and one half-glazed door with a moulded architrave, both from the early 19th century.

A string course at first floor level consists of two moulded brick bands, with the upper band protected by inclined red clay tiles and a plain band in between that originally had a raised strapwork design in plaster. This string course continues around the building, with traces of the original plaster strapwork visible on the north elevation of the east wing. The east wing was originally longer but was truncated around 1950, and the string course was reproduced at that end.

The main south stack has four octagonal shafts, while the north stack has grouped diagonal shafts that are truncated. At each side of the northeast corner, there are low blind arches that were originally for a sunken open dairy or well-house. On the east elevation at first floor level, there are two 17th-century three-light windows with restored wrought iron casements.

Inside, the house features high ceilings on both levels, an early 19th-century oval staircase with stick balusters, re-sited 17th-century panelling, and a double butt-purlin roof. Great Lodge was built between 1621 and 1623 by Sir Martin Lomelin or Lumley, who became Lord Mayor of London in 1623. It served as the service range of a larger house that stood further to the south, which was demolished around 1729.