The Lodge

The Lodge is a house located in Dovercourt, dating from the late 17th century and early 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure with painted pebbledash and a gabled roof covered in Welsh slate. The building is two storeys tall with attics and has a parallel two-storey rear range that has a low-pitched Welsh slate roof.

The front of the house has two square double-hung sash windows with moulded surrounds and square small panes on the first floor, along with a narrower central window of the same style. On the ground floor, there is a central 19th-century gabled porch that projects and is enclosed, featuring decorative Welsh slates and bargeboards. The door has four moulded panels and a plain semicircular fanlight above it. To the north of the porch are similar double-hung sash windows, while to the south is a projecting hipped bay roofed with slate, which contains 20th-century metal casement windows with small panes. The exterior is accented with black painted pilaster strips on either side and a black plinth. The gable ends display decorative moulded verges and a square finial block with an urn. The attic windows in the gables have pointed arched heads, with a small pane two-light casement on the south side (the north window has been replaced). A central ridgeline stack with six pots, three of which are square, is present. The north flank features two 20th-century metal small-pane casements at the first-floor level and a 20th-century lean-to conservatory. There is also a flat-roofed projecting bay on the north flank with 20th-century metal casements. The early 19th-century extension at the rear is slated and connects to a clay pantile gabled outhouse with a short gable-end stack. The parallel rear range has a very large and one small rendered stack.

Inside, the house has a three-bay timber frame with chamfered spine beams and lamb's tongue stops. There is a central stack with an entrance passage that creates a 'tunnel' effect underneath. An early 19th-century staircase leads up to the attic.