The Red Lodge

The Red Lodge is a 19th-century muscular Gothic lodge, originally part of Swallowfield Park, now used as a small house. It has a cross-gabled plan and is constructed of brick with diaper patterning, using dark brick for dressings. The roof is tiled, with bands of shaped tiles. The lodge rests on a brick plinth and features a string course at the first-floor cill level, where alternate bricks are recessed, and pointed relieving arches above the first-floor windows. It has 2 and 3-light leaded casements with toothed brick cills and squint brick heads. A prominent 4-shafted brick chimney is centrally positioned, with an offset and dentil-detailed head; a similar chimney, but with 2 shafts, is located on the north side. The front features a projecting gable on the right with an ornate carved bargeboard. To the left is a small gabled dormer with a 2-light casement, and below it, a large panel of decorative projecting brickwork with a raised pilaster springing from the plinth. To the left of this is a squint bay returning to the north front. A large projecting gabled porch is in the centre, featuring a carved bargeboard, open fretted wood dado panels on a brick plinth, and a planked door.