Lodge Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Constructed around the 14th century, with significant remodelling in the late 16th century and early to mid-19th century, and a late 20th-century extension. The building is timber frame, largely encased and partially rebuilt in painted brick, with a pantile roof featuring gabled ends. There are brick axial and gable end stacks. The original layout likely comprised a 3-room plan with a through passage, a raised aisle hall, a parlour to the northeast, and a solar to the southwest, with a service end to the southwest. In the late 16th century, the hall was floored, an axial stack was inserted at the high end, and the house was lengthened to the northeast. Around the early 19th century, the southwest service wing was removed, the entire house was faced and partly rebuilt in brick, effectively making the rear (northwest) elevation the front, and the roof was replaced. A wing was added to the rear (southeast) in the late 20th century. The northwest front has two storeys and four window bays. It features 19th-century 3-light casement windows with leaded metal frames, including transoms on the ground floor. A doorway is located on the left. The rear features a large 20th-century French window on the left, with a 3-light casement above, and a late 20th-century brick wing to the right. The interior retains portions of the medieval timber frame, including jowled walls, aisle posts, a tie beam across the hall with curved braces originally supporting arcade posts, diagonal bracing on the high end wall of the hall, and a solar floor. There are moulded aisle and wall plates with scarf joints. The wall framing in the hall is hollow-chamfered and ovolo-moulded, with evidence suggesting the former presence of oriel windows on the front and back walls of the hall. There is an inserted brick stack in the hall with a chamfered timber lintel, and the 19th-century roof structure incorporates some reused moulded timbers. The farmhouse is situated on a moated site.