Mead Lodge

Mead Lodge is a house that likely dates from the 18th century and was extended to the south and generally remodeled in the mid-19th century, with minor alterations and new windows, a front door, and rear bays probably added around 1906. It is a large, two-storey timber-framed house with plastered walls and low-pitched hipped slate roofs, facing west. The older northern part features four windows and has a Doric pillared porch with an open pediment located under the third window from the north. The house has a double-pile plan with chimneys rising from the valley between the parallel roofs. The small-paned casement windows have louvred shutters. The rear of the house has five windows and a gabled porch on fluted columns located under the fourth window from the north, with two-light wooden casements and louvred shutters. There is a large projecting bow on the ground floor to the right. The two-storey southern extension continues the west front but features sash windows with two-over-two panes and louvred shutters, topped with a pyramidal hipped roof and a square central chimney. The southern end wall is weatherboarded, and there is a large projecting bow on the ground floor rear with two-light casements. A brick retaining wall and square piers support wrought iron gates at the front. The Tithe Map of 1842 marks this building, although the name Mead Lodge was then associated with a now-demolished house on the north side of Eastwick Road in Eastwick parish. This is an interesting 18th-century house that was elaborated upon in the 19th century and is part of a group at the southern end of Mead Lane.