Goldings Lodge

Goldings Lodge is a lodge built in 1870, designed by architect George Devey. It features red brick in Flemish bond with occasional blue header diaper patterns, half-timbered walls with roughcast plaster, and complex gabled and hipped roofs originally thatched, now covered with old tiles. The tall chimneys are in the Tudor style, with brick shafts and oversailing caps, and the overall design is in a free Tudor style with an irregular plan.

The lodge is a single-storey building, with the main elevation facing the drive. To the left, there is a projecting gable with half-timber studwork and colourwashed roughcast panels over a brick base. In the center, a mullion and transom bay window features a moulded cornice and gabled roof, with a plain roughcast plaster spandrel. To the right, a porch is recessed beneath the bonnet-hipped end of the main roof, which has an upstand tile-hung gablet and diaper pattern in blue headers on a recessed red brick wall. At the far right, there is a projection forming a gabled wing facing the road, with ornamental studwork on brackets above a projecting three-light oriel bay that has a concave curved plaster spandrel. Further northward, there is another wing projecting at right angles.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, Robert Smith inherited the Goldings estate in 1861, demolished the old mansion from the 17th century, and reconstructed the nearby Watton Turnpike. He commissioned a new mansion, The Goldings, from George Devey, built between 1871 and 1877.