Rising Lodge, 1.7 Kilometres South Of Castle

Rising Lodge, located 1.7 kilometres south of Castle Rising, is a house that was originally a farmhouse and is now a hotel. It dates from around 1800 but has an earlier core. The building is constructed from galletted carstone blocks with brick dressings and features a hipped roof that has been renewed and reshaped over a double range of rafters. It has a double depth, formerly double range, with three bays and two storeys. The low lead-covered parapet sits over wooden eaves that have modillions.

The central doorway is topped by a three-quarter circle flat canopy supported by two stone Tuscan columns and two pilasters. The entrance features a double-leaved six-panelled door with panelled reveals and a semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. There are tall narrow flanking lights with top-hinged casements and tripartite sashes with glazing bars under flat arches, all with stone sills on the first and third bays. Above the doorway, there is a sash window with four panes by four panes, also with glazing bars.

The right return has two bays and two storeys, with tripartite sashes similar to the front, although the ground floor right window has been renewed. The left return has three bays and an east wing from the first bay. It includes an inserted four-pane sash with glazing bars at the centre ground floor and four-pane sashes with glazing bars on the ground and first floors to the right. The east wing consists of four bays, with the fourth bay closest to the house being of the same height and stonework as the former rear range, featuring two windows like those on the left return. There is a lower three-bay two-storey wing to the left, with two-light 20th-century casements with glazing bars in the first bay and the first floor of the second bay. The ground floor window of the second bay is blank, and the window opening in the third bay has been converted to a doorway with a late 20th-century inserted window, a flush sash with glazing bars above.

Inside, there is a double-leaved door between the front and rear room on the right, and the staircase balustrade and ramped handrail have been renewed in a Regency style. The rear range has a cellar that may be older, with a dividing wall of external thickness to the left. There are remains of a stack and stack staircase at the gable end of the east wing. A single-storey glazed extension has been added to the rear but is of no special interest. This house is situated on the site of a hunting lodge associated with the castle at Castle Rising, which is shown on a map from 1588.