The Hunting Lodge

The Hunting Lodge is a Grade II listed building, originally constructed in the 1870s, likely by architect George Devey, who also rebuilt Blakesware for Mrs. Gosselin between 1876 and 1879. This compact group of estate buildings has been converted into a house and consists of one and a half storeys.

On the north side, there is a hall designed for estate dinners and functions, while the south side features a large open-sided carriage house of equal size. At the west end of the carriage house, there is a smaller generator house. The building is made of red brick in English bond, with blue brick used for the lower parts of the square piers of the carriage house. The east gable of the carriage house is dark weatherboarded, while the other gables display decorative timber framing with patterned brick nogging.

The steep tiled roofs include hipped hoods over upper glazed doors and a former balcony, with gabled dormer windows in the north roofslope and the west side of the generator house. The south elevation has six bays formed by brick piers with primitive oak capitals and pads that support the wide-span, kingpost, open roof of the carriage house. Similar piers are found at the loggia on the west end of the hall. The north elevation features two dormers in the roofslope and five timber casement windows with leaded glazing, all set under wide segmental arches, which are also present over the doors. A large chimney is located in the valley between the parallel roofs of the north and south ranges. The Hunting Lodge is noted for its decorative estate buildings of high quality.