Searles North Lodge

Searles North Lodge is a lodge built around 1865, featuring a late 20th-century extension at the rear. The building is constructed from coursed and dressed stone with a rock-faced rusticated basement. It has a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with gabled ends, battlemented parapets, and moulded coping, topped with stone finials on the gables. The stone stacks have weathered set-offs and tall octagonal shafts with moulded caps; the left end has a pair of shafts, while the rear gable of the cross wing has a group of four shafts.

The lodge has a plan that includes a piano nobile over a basement, with two parallel ranges and a projecting cross-wing at the right end. There is a doorway at the angle of the front leading into the main range. The internal layout is not clearly documented, but a two-storey extension was added behind the left end in the late 20th century. The lodge is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and consists of one storey with an attic and basement.

The asymmetrical west front features small rectangular basement windows with chamfered frames. In the main range, there is a four-centred arch lancet window to the left and a chamfered four-centred arch doorway to the right, which contains a 19th-century moulded and panelled door with a narrow lancet above. The projecting gabled wing on the right has a central four-centred arch lancet flanked by windows in splayed corners, supported by stone columns with Venetian Gothic style capitals. Above this, there is a two-light lancet in the gable with four-centred arch lights, and the string-course of the parapet drops below the window as a sill. The right side features a tripartite lancet with four-centred arch heads, while the left end has two four-centred arch headed lancets.

The interior has not been inspected, but some original joinery was noted, including a simple staircase with stick balusters. Searles North Lodge and its counterpart, South Lodge, served as lodges for the now-demolished Victorian Gothic mansion known as 'Searles', which is also believed to have been built in 1865.