The Forge Lodges

The Forge Lodges are a pair of lodges dating from around 1835, built to serve Mote Park in a rustic Greek Revival style. The lodges are constructed of rag stone block with brick chimney stacks and pitched slated roofs. Windows are likely 20th-century side-hung timber casements.

The lodges are situated on either side of the entrance to the former south drive, and are one-and-a-half storeys high. They are one bay wide and three bays deep. Between the lodges are two square rag stone gate piers topped with pyramidal caps, connected to the lodges by rag stone walls.

The principal elevations of the lodges face south, overlooking the park. The gables of the shallow pitched roofs form a pediment above a simple entablature and an arcade of four square columns with very simple two-step capitals. The recessed frontages beneath the porticos have flanking pilasters and a central timber door. A window has been inserted into the pediment of the west lodge. The long east and west elevations have a first-floor storey band and a two-step eaves cornice. The opposing east and west elevations, facing the drive, have a range of three ground-floor windows, with a first-floor window being added to the east lodge. The rear elevations have a single window at basement, ground, and first floor levels. The east and west elevations facing the gardens have three first-floor windows (two on the west lodge are now blocked), a side door, and a ground-floor window. Both lodges have a single-storey, pitch-roofed store attached to the garden elevation; the store attached to the west lodge aligns continuously with a range of stores adjoining it to the north. Both lodges have a substantial yellow brick ridge stack at the centre of the roof.

The interior of the west lodge was inspected and is largely modernised, with only some surviving historic joinery of modest nature, indicating the interior is of lesser special interest.