Jessamine Lodge

Jessamine Lodge is a large house, originally built in the early 18th century, which has been extended, altered, and had its windows changed in the mid to late 19th century. It was restored in 1985. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, with a facade made of vitrified brick headers and red brick dressings. The roof is steeply hipped and covered with plain tiles, with slate on the rear side.

The house has a three-cell plan, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a facade divided into two: three: two sections, with the ends slightly projecting forward. The central entrance is recessed and features a raised eight-panel door with a panelled reveal and soffit. The 19th-century doorcase includes rinceau panelled jambs and a lintel, topped with an 18th-century dentilled segmental pediment. The windows are 19th-century two-light casements with unique chamfered Gothic traceried heads, shafted jambs, and brackets supporting moulded hoods, all with gauged brick flat arched heads. Above the entrance is a blind opening made of red brick with a gauged brick flat arched head, and there is a brick repair on the ground floor to the right where a shop was located.

The building has quoining, a plinth, and hollow moulding below the plat band, along with a restored coved cornice. There are three evenly spaced 20th-century two-light gabled dormers. The two ridge stacks between the cells feature red brick quoining and caps, with the right stack, serving the service end, being axial. The returns are rendered, and to the right, there is a restored first-floor window similar to those on the front.

At the rear, there is a full-height continuous extension with four bays of mixed 12 and 16-pane sash windows, two panelled doors, and French windows. Inside, the parlour has some early 19th-century raised dado panelling, while the hall features an ogee stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam. The staircase, located in front of the stack between the hall and parlour, has 18th-century dado panelling and 19th-century turned balusters. The parlour chamber includes an early 19th-century lugged architrave around the fireplace and raised panelling. Some of the framing is exposed, showcasing good 18th-century studding, and the roof has a double staggered tenoned purlin structure with collars to the principals.