The King'S Lodge

The King's Lodge is a former house that has been converted into a restaurant. It has origins dating back to the late 15th century but was largely rebuilt around 1640. The building features a late 18th century brick front and extensions, with further expansions in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has a timber frame with a red brick front and additions, topped by a tiled roof.

The structure has a 17th century three-bay lobby entry that replaced the original hall, with an earlier service bay to the left, and has been extended by one bay at both ends. It stands two storeys high with an attic. Notable features include a carved bracketed hood over the entrance, four ground floor three-light casement windows with arched heads and gauged brick flat arches, and three similar first floor windows without flat arches. The left bay features early 20th century floral neo-17th century plasterwork panels, with the one above the entrance dated 1642. The left bay also has an entrance with a carved bracketed hood, while the right bay includes a ground floor two-light leaded pane casement and a first floor plaster panel. The building has dentilled eaves throughout and a cruciform axial ridge stack, along with a left end stack.

At the rear, the original parlour bay has a rendered gable with exposed purlins and a large double-shafted 17th century external stack with offsets, as well as gable and lean-to outshuts and a short 19th century wing to the rear right. Inside, there is early 17th century plasterwork in the ground floor room, featuring the Stuart Royal Arms with 'C R' and '1642' on the chimney breast, flanked by a lion, unicorn, and foliated fleur-de-lys with a vine scroll border. The ceiling has binding beams and 16 panels adorned with vine scroll borders, fleur-de-lys, lion, unicorn, rosettes, and the Royal Arms. Some framing is exposed, and there is an ovolo moulded stop-chamfered fireplace lintel. A single-storey 20th century wing at the rear is not of special interest.