Chandos Lodge

Chandos Lodge is a house built in 1811 by Dent Hooper for John Wythe, with extensions added to the right and left around 1820. The building features whitewashed and partly rendered brick, with a central section roofed in black-glazed pantiles and the extensions covered with slate roofs.

The house is two storeys high and has a five-window range. The central part from 1811 has a three-window range, with central double glass doors set in a slightly projecting porch that has a plain hood above a dentilled cornice. There is one 2-light metal casement window with arched lights above, and on either side of the doorway, there are full-height bow windows. Each bow has one 4-light arched metal casement with leaded glazing on both floors. The eaves feature a dentil cornice below a mansard roof, and there are internal gable-end stacks on the east and west sides.

The left (west) extension has French windows on the ground floor, with glazing bars arched to imitate those of the central block, and an 8/8 unhorned sash window on the first floor with louvred shutters. It has a hipped roof and a stack on the west wall plane. The right (east) extension is lit by one 8/8 unhorned sash window on each floor, also with arched glazing bars, and has a hipped roof. The rear of the house features a staircase turret and two 20th-century conservatories.

Inside, there is a stick-baluster staircase that was inserted around 1965, and the entrance hall has a projecting peardrop cornice from the same period. The west ground-floor room includes a double wave-moulded 16th-century bridging beam, also added around 1965. The house is historically significant as the home of Sir Frederick Ashton, the choreographer and dancer, who lived there from 1957 to 1988 and served as the Director of the Royal Ballet.