Lodge Hill Farm House

Farmhouse. Dating to the second half of the 17th century, with alterations around 1900. Constructed of carstone with brick dressings, and featuring a red pantile roof. The building is a three-bay, two-storey lobby-entry plan. It originally had two ground floor and three first floor windows, all with brick dressings; however, the window details are now largely obscured by corrugated iron sheeting. The windows are mostly C19 sashes with glazing bars, with the exception of a central first floor casement. Brick quoins and rustication feature on the central boarded door. Brick coped gables cover a steeply pitched roof, and a central stack rises from the building, incorporating four rectangular shafts topped with common brick coping. The rear elevation has one blocked, brick-dressed, long and low window opening, along with three other similar blocked openings at eaves level. The south gable shows evidence of larger earlier window openings, with a narrower, brick-dressed sash window inserted at ground floor level and stitching visible at first floor. Further stitching at attic level marks a previously blocked window. The north gable contains two blocked attic openings. Attached to the north is an 18th-century cottage with three blocked brick-dressed windows and an off-centre door. This cottage also has a steeply pitched roof and end gable and ridge stacks. The interior of the farmhouse includes a left-hand cell with a cased axial beam jointed into a transverse beam over the stack; this beam is chamfered with run-out stops. A similar transverse beam is present to the right of the stack but is covered. Reveals of original first-floor openings are visible, along with two sets of C19 stairs located behind the stack.