The Lodge

The Lodge is a former farmhouse with an early 19th century front that incorporates an early 16th century and later core. It is two storeys high with attics and has an L-shaped form. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with some areas covered in roughcast, and features black glazed pantiled roofs that are hipped. The rear wing has been encased in 19th century brick, which is now colour-washed, and there is a single-storey 19th century lean-to made of rubble flint with brick dressings along the north side of this wing.

The main facade displays three early 19th century tripartite small-paned sash windows in flush frames on the ground floor and two on the upper floor, along with a single sash window above the entrance door, which is set off-centre within a 20th century glazed porch. The rear sections mainly have small-paned sash windows, but there are also some 18th and 19th century casement windows. The house has evolved through at least four stages, with the oldest part being the early 16th century front range, which was extended on both sides in the early 19th century.

The central section likely has a basic two-cell form and features a good crown-post roof, with the crown post of the open truss in a simple cross-quadrate form, supported by pilasters running down the sides of the post. There are no signs of smoke-blackening, indicating that the house must have been storied from the outset. A long service range was added at the rear in the mid-17th century, forming an L shape, and this section has a plain unstepped butt-purlin roof, later encased in brick. When the lean-to was added on the north side, the original timber-framed wall was cut away, and the upper wall is now supported by an octagonal post, which may have been part of an open Jacobean porch or colonnade. The third addition is a separately-roofed mid-18th century block that runs parallel to the front, creating a double-house and containing a fine geometric stair. The interior largely reflects alterations and enlargements from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.