Old Park Lodge

Old Park Lodge is a 17th-century building originally serving as a verderer's lodge and lookout, now functioning as a house. It was likely constructed for the 1st Baron Ellesmere, who died in 1617, or the 1st Earl of Ellesmere, who died in 1649. The building was refaced around 1715, with a low kitchen extension added to the north around 1725 and a northern annexe around 1825. The exterior is made of red brick, now faced in Flemish bond, featuring different shades of red and larger bricks in the northern extensions. The lodge has steep old red tile roofs and wide plastered coves at the cantilevered eastern corners of the roof.

The house is rectangular and three-and-a-half storeys tall, with large external gable chimneys and a narrower projecting eastern frontispiece that contains the stairway and entrance hall, topped by two gabled dormers. The eastern front features a wide 4-centred arched doorway with a battened painted door, a 2-light lattice leaded window above, and a plastered sundial above the second projecting brick floor band. The wide plaster coves spring from the sidewalls of this front, extending to the corners of the roof and supported by timbers that are tailed back into the gable brickwork. There is a similar sundial on the southern chimney for afternoon sun.

Inside, the lodge boasts a fine moulded string oak staircase with turned balusters and acorn finials, rising through four levels in the frontispiece. The ground floor consists of a single large room with chamfered crossed beams, while the two rooms above feature moulded beams and a jowled central post for partitioning. The doors are moulded planks with strap hinges, and the second floor has a similar subdivision with simpler doors. The staircase continues to an attic chamber across the top of the house.