Top Lodge Including Front Boundary Fence

Top Lodge is a lodge for Somerhill Park, built around 1880. The ground floor is made of coursed sandstone ashlar, while the upper part features exposed timber framing. It has a brick stack with tall diagonally-set chimney shafts and a red tile roof.

The building has an uneven T-plan layout, with the main block facing east towards the drive to Somerhill. Inside, there is an entrance hall with a staircase to the right, located behind a two-storey porch. To the left of the hall is a room with a rear lateral stack that also serves a one-room kitchen at the back. The lodge is two storeys high, with a single-storey kitchen block.

Architecturally, it is designed in the Tudor style with an irregular arrangement of windows. The doorway to the right features a Tudor arch and a plain plank door, situated behind the two-storey porch, which is open at ground level and supported by plain posts with a Tudor arch. The upper room jetties out and has a gabled roof, with a mullioned canted bay window that has a solid moulded sill. To the left, the ground floor room has a three-light window. The original windows include rectangular panes of leaded glass and iron-framed casements. The first floor jetties out but has no window, showcasing slender framing with straight tension braces. The gable-ended roof has original cusped bargeboards, and the left side also features a jettied first floor with another canted bay window similar to the one in the front porch.

The interior has not been inspected. The narrow front garden is still enclosed by the original timber railings. Top Lodge is one of several notable late 19th-century buildings constructed by the Goldsmid family on the Somerhill Estate.