Woodlands Vale Lodge

Woodlands Vale Lodge is a lodge dating from 1900, designed by Stephen Salter. It is constructed of roughcast and brick, with a clay tile roof featuring gabled ends, deep modillion eaves cornices and verges, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends and a lead-clad dome to a turret. Brick stacks have tall, diagonally-set shafts topped with tapered clay pots.

The building comprises a lodge to the north, a small wing at the rear, and a cross-wing on the right incorporating an integral carriageway and an octagonal turret with a front doorway in the angle between.

The architectural style is Domestic Revival Freestyle. The west front is asymmetrical, comprising three bays. It features a large three-light wooden bay window with glazing bars and a moulded cornice under deep eaves. A small three-light flat-roof dormer sits within the main roof. A large octagonal turret in the angle to the right has a doorway with a glazed door, a moulded stone cornice, and a “lantern” with pilasters, a moulded frieze, and an ogee lead-clad dome topped with a finial. A gabled cross-wing on the right includes the integral carriageway, featuring ornate brackets to the bressumer, and a Venetian oriel above, with a clock face in the apex of the gable. The rear, east, gable end of the carriageway cross wing mirrors the front but lacks the clock face and incorporates a single-storey wing to its right. This wing has an oriel on brackets with an Ipswich window and a brattished bressumer inscribed “V:1900:R,” and includes applied timber framing in the gable. The windows are complete with glazing bars, and the front dormer features leaded panes. The interior was not inspected.

Woodlands Vale Lodge serves Woodlands Vale, a house dating from the 1870s designed by S.S. Teulon for Lord Calthorpe and is a good example of a Domestic Revival Freestyle lodge.