Whiteley Lodge

Whiteley Lodge is a former farmhouse dating to the mid 17th century, with later alterations. The house is timber-framed and originally clad in brick in a Flemish bond, now painted. The left return has an upper floor clad in tiles, while the roof is covered with 20th-century interlocking tiles. Brick stacks are present. The house is two storeys and three bays wide, with a rear outshut; the right end of this has been raised to two storeys in the 19th century. A single-storey 19th-century wash-kitchen is set back on the left.

The front elevation features a plinth. A central doorway has been bricked up, with a 20th-century door inserted into the left bay alongside a 20th-century window. The right bay includes a large gabled ingle-nook chimney, which has been enlarged and features an offset at the top, tabled flues (truncated), and an added lean-to at the front. A small window is located to the right of the chimney. The wash-kitchen has a two-light window under a flat brick arch and stepped dentilled eaves, with a stack at its left end. The rear of the house includes a two-storey wing with an end stack, and a rear outshut containing a 20th-century door, a small two-light window, and two later windows, as well as a gabled two-light dormer with an old brick gable and an old stack with a dog-tooth band and coupled diagonal flues. A single-storey 20th-century addition on the rear of the wash-kitchen is not of particular interest.

The left return has a 19th-century brick porch flanked by a three-light window to the left and a two-light window to the right, with matching windows above, all set within small-paned late 19th- or early 20th-century wooden casements. Internally, the timber frame is exposed, featuring jowelled wall posts, chamfered wall plates, and chamfered tie-beams. The left-hand ground floor room (parlour) has a large spine-beam with ovolo moulding and a stepped cyma stop, old joists, and a rear-wall fireplace. The right-hand ground floor room (kitchen) has a stop-chamfered spine beam and a front-wall fireplace with a timber lintel featuring an almost flat four-centred arch. The central staircase has been remodelled, incorporating reused moulded splat balusters and a single old newel to the landing balustrade. Upstairs, the right-hand room retains a section of plank and muntin partition wall and reused panelling, while the left-hand room has a two-panel cupboard door with H-L hinges. The roof structure comprises raked queen strut trusses, diminishing principal rafters, a through purlin, straight wind braces, and old rafters.