Braywood Lodge And Attached Fence

Braywood Lodge, originally built as a lodge and now a small house, was constructed in 1869 for the Van de Weyer family. The building features brick construction with decorative vertical tile hanging and a steeply pitched gabled roof. It has an irregular plan, including a circular stair turret with a conical roof at the rear, and is one and a half storeys tall.

The north-facing front has a projecting gable on the left, which includes a full-height canted bay topped with an oversailing hipped roof. There is decorative timber work with rendered infill between the ground and first-floor 7-light leaded casement windows. To the right, there is a one-bay gablet with a 2-light leaded casement window on the first floor and a 4-light similar window below. The ground floor is made of brick with darker brick banding, while the upper part features decorative tiling with alternating courses of 2 orange and 4 black tiles.

The east front displays alternating bands of brick on the ground floor, with vertical tiling above and below a large gable that has pierced and carved bargeboards. There is decorative timbering with painted roughcast infill. A small 2-light leaded casement oriel window on the ground floor has a conical tile roof that abuts the wall. The entrance door is located on the left within a recessed lean-to hipped roof porch, which has a similar carved bargeboard and entry screen. A carved terra-cotta date panel from 1869 features the interwoven initials of the Van de Weyer family.

Enclosing the front garden is a wooden fence arranged in 4 bays with a squared pattern and cross formation above. There is a small latch gate and a large entrance gate of a similar design, set between large posts topped with three-stage pyramidal points. This lodge, along with Braywood Cottage, was part of the former estate of the Van de Weyer family, whose main house, New Lodge, is listed separately.