South Lodge

South Lodge is a pair of joined Italianate villas built in 1864 to the designs of William Oldham Chambers. Originally intended as two separate houses, the building was later used as a school before being converted into residential flats.

The construction incorporates red and gault bricks, covered by hipped slate roofs. The original plan, which separated the two houses with side entrance bays, has been altered to accommodate the later residential flats.

The main, square block stands three storeys high above a basement, with three bays facing the seafront (east) elevation. The exterior displays red brick walls with gault brick dressings, showcasing Italianate detailing. This includes rusticated brick quoins, keystones above the windows, moulded architraves to most windows, a modillion eaves cornice, and cornices between each storey. Recessed from the main elevation are full-height entrance bays on each side; the north bay extends to a four-storey tower with a swept pyramidal roof topped with iron cresting.

The east elevation features a pair of two-storey canted bay windows rising from the basement, with casement windows at ground floor level. The remaining windows are sash windows with wooden frames, although those on the second floor were replaced in 1990. Wall stacks are present to the north, south, and rear, which are dressed with gault brick and rise above blind architraves that echo the window rhythm on each storey.

The south porch is entered through a double-glazed door installed in 1990, set beneath a rounded arch. Paired rounded windows are positioned on each floor above. The north porch is four stages high, with a six-panel fielded doorway at ground floor level (only the two lower panels are original), contained within a round-headed archway surmounted by a keystone carved with a male head. Paired round-headed windows are found on each floor above, and are blind to the upper two stages on the east side.

Inside, the north porch leads to a stair hall containing a stick baluster staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail.