Lexden Lodge Farmhouse

Lexden Lodge Farmhouse is a farmhouse that may have originally served as a Court Hall, dating from the 15th century, early 16th century, and 19th century. The building is timber framed and partly plastered, with sections encased in gault brickwork. It features a mix of hipped and gabled roofs, some covered with peg tiles and others with Welsh slate. The structure has a complex plan with numerous additions and alterations over time.

The windows include a combination of 17th century and 20th century casements in the later sections. The southeastern corner block is particularly noteworthy, featuring an asymmetrical low-pitched slate roof and a gault brick facade from the 19th century. This block has small pane double-hung sash windows, including a canted bay on the ground floor. Behind this is a 19th-century extension with a gabled peg tile roof, plain barge boards, and tripartite double-hung sash windows without subdivisions. This extension also has a rectangular projecting window bay on its southeast face.

Substantial remains of a high-quality timber-framed building are preserved within the southeastern block. This original structure was two stories high, jettied to the northeast, and had two open bays on each floor. Fragments of the front entrance door remain, and an elaborate window with moulded mullions and arched heads is intact in the front wall. The roof features simple crown posts with longitudinal braces, and traces of the original stair opening can still be seen. The building likely had a non-residential purpose, suggesting it was a manorial Court Hall.

Adjoining the presumed Court Hall to the northwest is a cross-wing, likely from the early 16th century, which was jettied at the front and open-framed against the existing Court Hall. This cross-wing has a simple crown post roof and is hipped with a gablet at the rear. It appears to have been added to convert the Court Hall into a small house. Further additions to the northwest contain 17th-century framing and reused fragments of moulded mullion windows. The site is also noted to be moated.