Forest Lodge

Forest Lodge is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of three bays aligned approximately northeast to southwest, with a southeast aspect. There is a large external chimney stack on the southwest end and another on the rear wall of the northeast bay. An original rear wing extends from the southwest bay. A 19th-century extension with a slate roof is located in the northern angle, along with a single-storey extension to the northeast that has a hipped roof of red clay Roman tiles, dating from the 19th or 20th century. Additionally, there is a single-storey lean-to extension in the western angle, roofed with machine-made red clay tiles from the 20th century. The house has two storeys, with the ground floor featuring a glazed door in a wide glazed porch and two bay windows, all from the 20th century. The first floor has three double-hung sash windows with six lights, dating from the late 19th century. Both chimney stacks have grouped diagonal shafts. Some of the timber framing is exposed internally, and there are stop-chamfered axial beams above the northeast and southwest ground floor rooms, with joists plastered to the soffits. Both hearths have been reduced for 20th-century fireplaces, with a mantel beam visible in the southwest ground floor room.