Little Lodge

Little Lodge is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the late 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The main section of the house consists of four bays facing northeast, with a two-bay crosswing on the left. There is an original stack at the rear of the crosswing and two 18th or 19th-century stacks in the main range, which combine to form a single axial stack at the roof level.

At the rear, there is a two-storey extension to the crosswing, a two-storey lean-to extension along the rest of the rear, and a one-storey extension at the right end, all dating from the 18th or 19th century. The house has two storeys and attics, featuring a five-window range of early 20th-century casements and two 20th-century casements in flat-roofed dormers. The entrance includes a 19th-century half-glazed door with a dentilled shallow hood. The roof is gambrel-shaped and half-hipped at both ends.

The rear stack has grouped diagonal shafts with truncated octagonal shafts above. Inside, there are jowled posts, two transverse chamfered beams with step stops, and one axial beam with double ogee moulding. The rear wall has mortises for unglazed windows at both ends, now located within the right extension. The crosswing retains original hearths with depressed brick arches on both levels. The wallplates feature face-halved and bladed scarfs.

This house is notably datable to around 1575 and was re-roofed in a continuous run in the late 17th century. In the attic, there is an unusual wooden pen measuring approximately 2 by 3.5 metres, with open slats in the ceiling, a door, and a stock-lock, all made with handmade nails and hardwood, likely from the 19th century. Its purpose is uncertain, but it may have been related to cock-fighting.