Lodge Farm House

House. The origins of Lodge Farm House date to the late 15th century, with substantial rebuilding around 1530. Further extensions or rebuilding occurred in the late 16th century, followed by alterations and extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is timber frame on a brick base, with plastered walls and red brick additions. It has a steeply pitched machine tiled roof, and black glazed pantiles on the additions. Originally a three-cell cross passage plan, the stack and parlour to the left are likely a rebuilding of the original smoke bay and parlour, subsequently altered to a lobby entrance plan. The front has five windows; the entrance is in the left-of-centre position, featuring a part-glazed six-panelled door with architraved surrounds, shaped brackets, and a pedimental hood, alongside two- and three-light casements with glazing bars. Boxed eaves are present. An axial ridge stack stands to the left of the centre, between the hall and parlour, featuring a rebuilt cap with an additional flue on the rear. A continuous 19th- and 20th-century red brick lean-to outshut extends to the rear, with a stack behind the hall.

Inside, a partition wall from the original 15th-century house survives at the lower end of the hall, displaying a brattished spere beam and upper cranked brace with close studding. A reset four-centred arched doorhead with Tudor roses in the spandrels is visible between the cross passage and the service bay. The hall has richly moulded early 16th-century ceiling beams, a cross axial binding beam, mid-rails, and an upper-end beam, all with complex roll-and-hollow mouldings. The upper bay’s axial binding beam is simpler, while the lower bay has recessed roll-moulded joists. Stop-chamfered storey posts are also present. A panelled screen with chamfered muntins has been reset between two hall bays. The service bay’s ground floor has been altered, and the parlour retains a defaced cross axial binding beam. On the first floor, reverse cranked braces appear in the service end walls; a 17th-century inserted hall chamber has bar stop chamfered crossed binding beams, and reused parts of a screen with stop-chamfered rails and muntins. Between the stack and parlour is a chamfered jowled post with a rebated section, along with traces of an arched brace to the tie beam. The parlour chamber shows close studding, a large post with a rebated section, and arched braces to the tie beam. The roof over the first three bays is a queen post roof with cranked braces to cranked collars and tenoned plates/purlins fixed into principals in a former open truss with arched braces from principals to collar. The parlour has a 17th-century side purlin roof. A moat lies to the west of the house, which was formerly known as Manor Lodge.