Letheringsett Lodge

This is a house, dating from the 16th and 18th centuries, situated north of Thornage Road, at Letheringsett with Letheringsett Glandford Little. The building is constructed of flint with brick dressings and has a black glazed pantile roof. It has a T-shaped plan.

The front range, facing north, comprises seven irregular bays, two storeys and an attic. It has two ridgelines, with bays three to five forming a polygonal projection with a polygonal roof. Internal stacks are present, one to the right built of uncoursed flint, and another axial between bays two and three. Gable parapets are topped by wide eaves with modillions and a brick dentil cornice. Recessed sash windows have thick glazing bars and tall flat brick arches, with stone sills. The east gable shows an exposed tie beam at first floor level, a small blocked window to the right, and a blocked doorway with a wooden lintel to the left. Iron letters "I B" are on each gable, commemorating John Burrell (1734-86), the rector.

The rear of bays one and two of the front range are of coursed flint, with the upper part and chimney bay built of uncoursed flint. Bays six and seven are deeper, with a single-storey brick addition to the rear, accommodating a passage and steps to the cellar.

The central wing to the rear has seven bays and a steep-pitched hipped roof of black glazed pantiles. It has a central axial stack. The east facade has inserted windows in bays one to three, and bays four and seven have black headers and Flemish bond brickwork. The sashes have glazing bars (one has been renewed), with blank windows to bays four and six on the first floor. A large, flat-roofed porch in bay six has two fat Doric columns. The door, reveals, and architrave are panelled.

The rear west facade, dating to the mid-18th century, has a shaped gable and coloured brick headers above the second bay. A tall, semi-circular-headed sash window with glazing bars is located in the stairwell, and a continuous single-storey outshut extends to the right, featuring a tall, tapering cross stack over a bread oven. The south return has a large ground-floor window with iron glazing bars, one pane inscribed “Alfred Cooper/Letheringsett/G. Neal/Letheringsett.”

Internally, the roof over bays four to seven of the rear wing features 3½ bays, two tiers of butt purlins with wind braces and collars, dating to the 16th century, with some rafters renewed. The roof line continues across the front range, which itself has roofs of staggered purlins. A hall is located in the rear wing; it has a raised and fielded panelled dado, a stone floor, and an open-well staircase with turned balusters, a ramped and wreathed handrail. In a room to the west, a classical leaf frieze and moulded window surrounds are present; a 20th-century bay window is to the left of the fireplace, and a 20th-century surround frames a 17th-century pine recess. A room to the east features a large fire recess, asymmetrical to the gable end, with a stopped bressumer above and a niche within the recess. 17th-century panelling is found in a first-floor room by the central stack of the rear wing. A bread oven and fireplace with an 18th-century duck’s nest grate are located in the service room of the rear outshut.