Lodge Cottage

Lodge Cottage is a house dating from the early 16th century, with a floor inserted and extended in the late 16th century, part raised in the 17th century, reroofed in the early 19th century, and altered in the 20th century. It has a timber frame that is plastered and features a shallow pitched pantiled roof. Originally, it was a small two-bay open hall with a cross passage in the lower hall bay; the original lower bay to the left, which was likely storeyed, has since disappeared. To the right, there is a three-bay stack and a parlour addition, with the early bays raised to a uniform two storeys. The cottage has scattered one, two, and three-light glazing bar casements and French windows. An axial ridge stack is located to the right of centre between the hall and parlour, which is cement rendered with broadening visible above the later ridge. The gable end exposes early plates and later purlins, and to the right, there is a 20th-century pantiled outshut with an entrance leading to one-storey 20th-century rear additions.

Inside, there is a four-centred arched door head at the rear of the cross passage, altered full-height studding, and the original hall window was five-lights with parts of roll and hollow mullions reset in a former service doorway. There are also four-light diamond mullioned window openings, inserted bar and leaf stop-chamfered binding beams and side girts, a stop-chamfered fireplace bressumer, and traces of mortices for open truss arched braces in posts that have subsequently been stop-chamfered. The depressed arched head to the doorway into the parlour has been moved slightly. The parlour features a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam and storey posts, close studding, curved tension bracing, and first-floor arched bracing in the walls, along with a four-centred arched brick fireplace on the first floor and a cambered tie beam.