Queens Lodge

Queens Lodge is a house that dates from the late 17th century, featuring a refined brick front with alterations and extensions from the late 18th to early 19th centuries, along with some minor changes in the 20th century. The walls are constructed of brick in Flemish bond with fine joints, a moulded plinth, and brick eared architraves with corner scrolls and triangular ornaments below the cills, though these are now mostly fragments. Later brickwork in header bond fills former openings, while additional brickwork surrounds the current openings. There is a cambered basement arch for a filled opening and a small rubbed flat arch above the upper central window.

The most notable feature of the facade is a full-height central Ionic Order made of fine cut brickwork, which includes a dentilled entablature, two pilasters with entasis and Ionic capitals on a curved plan, and plain stepped bases. Within this framework is a smaller pediment of the same order above the doorway. The roof is half-hipped with a catslide at the rear. Originally, the symmetrical south front elevation had two windows on each side of the central feature, but now only the outer architraves of the former pairs remain, replaced by later single windows that disrupt the symmetry. The ground-floor on the west side features a wide late 20th-century splayed bay that replaced the former shop front. The 19th-century doorway has a plain frame, a wood pediment on brackets, and a six-panelled door.

Inside, there are two 17th-century overmantels with plaster decoration and a small section of a plaster ornamental ceiling with a fully moulded cornice. Above the doorway, a small window displays a lead sun fire insurance sign numbered 105673. Despite significant alterations, the building retains its distinguished central feature.