Upper Lodge

Upper Lodge is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and around 1900. The building is two storeys high and was likely originally constructed with a three-cell plan, although it has been modified over time. It is timber-framed and was encased in gault brick around 1900, featuring flat pilasters and bands of moulded brick at the first floor and beneath the eaves. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, and there is an axial early 17th-century chimney made of buff/orange brick with a pilaster strip at the front.

The windows are casements from around 1900, with those on the ground floor having segmental heads and hoodmoulds. A flat-roofed splayed entrance porch, also in gault brick and dating to around 1900, features a boarded door. A gabled two-storey bay, which is central and slightly set forward, was added around the same time. The house retains two cells from around 1600, showcasing good but unmoulded framing; the cell to the right of the chimney was remodeled or extended around 1900. The structure includes close studding and a windbraced clasped-purlin roof, with blocked open fireplaces.

Inside, one chamber displays a series of early 17th-century painted designs on each plaster panel around the room, featuring a strapwork form in grey with stylized leaves and a head resembling a thistle; one design is exposed while the others may be traced. On a former exposed gable to the left, now internal, there is high-quality 17th-century pargetting with a rich vinescroll frieze and raised and moulded panels beneath. Additionally, a lower service range of two bays was added to the left in the 17th century, and several 16th-century carved oak features from other buildings were incorporated into the house around 1900.