Lodge Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1983. Farmhouse.
Lodge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- eastward-bronze-reed
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lodge Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building, likely constructed as a dower house for Grizell Wodehouse, née Yelverton, between 1625 and 1635. This small house features a large western gable end stack and has a mid-19th century extension at the rear. It is built of brick with a pantiled roof, standing two storeys high with an attic. The house has crow-stepped gables and a steep-pitched roof.
The east gable has been rebuilt, but it retains original window openings below, which have chamfered reveals and double pediments above, with 19th-century tripartite sash windows inserted. There is one original window opening in the western gable end next to the stack, while all other gable-end windows have been blocked. On the ground floor of the north side wall, there is a full-length window opening that is partially blocked and obscured by a 20th-century lean-to. The original entrance is located on the south side wall.
Inside, the farmhouse features original pargetted overmantels displaying heraldry. On the ground floor, the arms of the Wodehouse family of Kimberley are shown impaling those of the Yelverton family, commemorating Sir Philip Wodehouse (a baronet) and Grizell Yelverton. This decoration was likely created for Grizell after Sir Philip's death in 1623, as there is no indication of baronetcy in the Wodehouse arms, which had passed to his son. The overmantels include wild men supporters wielding clubs, elaborate helms with mantling, crests of a winged bird and a clasped club, and the motto "Frape Fort."
On the first floor, the royal arms of Charles I are displayed with the inscription "Exurga Deus et dissipentur inimici," which is the first line of Psalm 68. The original fireplace features a four-centred arch with decorated spandrels. To the left of the fireplace, a plaster vine scroll frieze follows the contour of the stair above. To the right, there is an original panelled door with cock's head hinges. A winding stair leads to the attic, which has a planked door with cock's head hinges and the original latch and handle. The attic also contains a shallow arched fireplace and mainly original roof timbers.
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