Hutton Lodge

Hutton Lodge is a house dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, built in red brick laid in Flemish bond with some burnt headers, and roofed with peg tiles in a mansard profile. It consists of a rectangular plan of two parallel ranges, one from the 18th century and one from the 19th century.

The front (west) elevation presents two storeys with attics and gable end stacks. It has three bays with a central doorway. The doorway is distinguished by a flat hood on brackets with pulvinated pilasters, a rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars, and outer panes of two wide and two narrow widths. The door itself is six-panelled with recessed and bead-moulded flush panels. The ground and first-floor outer windows are triple sashes with glazing bars in 1x4, 3x4, and 1x4 pane configurations, with voussoirs to the ground-floor windows and bead-moulded frames. The central first-floor window is a similar triple sash but with simple 3x4 panes throughout, and considerable old glass remains. A moulded eaves cornice runs across the facade. Three flat-headed dormer windows in the attic are fitted with 20th-century top-hinged casements with glazing bars and 3x3 panes.

To the north is a 19th-century kitchen addition of one and a half storeys in red brick with a tiled roof. The ground floor has a boarded door and a 2-light casement window with glazing bars in a 4x4 pane pattern and voussoirs. The first floor has a 2-light casement window dropped through the eave with glazing bars and 4x4 panes. Set back to the north is a service stair in its own projection with a single round window in the front wall.

The rear (east) elevation is formed by a 19th-century added range in red brick with some burnt headers, gable end stacks, and 20th-century flat clay tiles. The windows are somewhat irregular, all with segmental heads, as are the door heads. The ground floor displays a 3-light casement window with a wooden frame, though the central casement is metal with latch and stay, a six-panelled door with upper panes and lower flush bead-moulded panels, and two 3-light casements with glazing bars in 3x2 and 6x4 pane patterns respectively. A projecting porch on the south face has a beaded-board door and two similar doors alongside. The east face has two bead-moulded casement windows. A service block with a rear stack has a 20th-century 2-light casement window with glazing bars in 4x3 panes and a similar door. The first floor has three segmental-headed sash windows, two with horns, with glazing bars in 4x4 panes; between the second and third is a single-light casement window.

The south and north end elevations show twin gable ends from the 18th and 19th-century rear blocks. The 18th-century unit has a mansard roof shape followed by a line of burnt headers and walls in approximate Flemish bond with random burnt headers and a central stack. Two ground-floor segmental-headed sash windows have glazing bars, one with 3x4 panes and one with replacement horned sashes of 2x4 panes. The 19th-century unit is of lesser height but has a tall central stack and a ground-floor segmental-headed window with glazing bars in a 3x4 pane pattern. The north end elevation is similar to the south but with an additional 19th-century ground-floor service unit comprising a gabled kitchen with a rear stack and an enclosed projecting service stair. The 18th-century block has one ground-floor segmental-headed sash window with glazing bars in 3x4 panes. A small flat-roofed projection on the east side of the kitchen and stair unit has a boarded door with bead moulding and a simple segmental-headed double casement window.

The interior reveals the architectural history of the building. The ground and first floors display axial chamfered joists with lambs' tongue stops, and first-floor binding joists that indicate the apparently 18th-century house was originally a 17th-century timber-framed structure with an asymmetrical lobby entrance plan. The 17th-century central stack was removed to create a hall and stairwell, though a boxed-in, off-centre principal joist across the central chimney bay marks its former position. A robust central rear back door frame to the 18th-century block survives from the second phase of building.

The 19th-century additions and reorganisation are evident from three cast-iron fireplaces and, significantly, the survival of a large built-in dresser and high lintel fireplace in the ground-floor room at the north end of the 19th-century rear unit. The adjacent 19th-century kitchen extension retains its contemporary cast-iron kitchen range in situ and a servants' stair to the upper rooms. These 19th-century features, together with the contemporary stable block at the north end, are of particular interest.

Hutton Lodge and its summer house form an individual group. Together with Nos 35, 43-47 (odd), 52, and 56-64 (even) and Hutton Village School, Hutton Lodge is part of a larger group within Hutton Village.