Danemore Lodge

Danemore Lodge is a lodge dating to around 1860, with 20th-century extensions to the rear. It was built as a gatehouse to Danemore Park. The ground floor is constructed of local sandstone ashlar, while the first floor is plastered with sgraffito decoration. The roof is covered in peg tiles, and there are stacks with rendered chimney shafts. The architectural style is idiosyncratic Tudor.

The lodge faces north east, overlooking the drive to Danemore Park, with its east end fronting Langton Road. The original layout is a single-depth, two-room plan, with an axial stack to the left of centre and a stack on the right end. The main entrance is centrally positioned on the north side.

The lodge is single-storey with an attic. The north-facing front is asymmetrical, featuring two windows, and the roof is half-hipped at the ends. A tall, chamfered plinth rises to form hoodmoulds over the ground floor windows. A timber fascia is present at attic level, from which eaves brackets support deep, sprocketted eaves with sgraffito panels. A coped, gabled stone porch projects from the centre, featuring a two-centred outer arch with a projecting oval plaque above. The original panelled front door has diagonal boards. The ground floor windows are transomed casements. The sgraffito decoration consists of a blind arcade of pointed arches, decorated with bands of lozenges, zig-zags, chevrons, and scallops. The spandrels of the arches are decorated with black polished hemispheres set into the plaster. A hipped dormer window with an original transomed window is located to the right of centre, and a 20th-century attic dormer is to the left.

The east return, overlooking the road, is tile-hung below the half-hip and has a three-light transomed ground floor window and a similar two-light attic window. The sgraffito decoration extends around this return. The west return, visible from the drive to Danemore Place, has an elaborately treated stack, narrow at ground floor level and corbelled out to a wider shaft above. The sgraffito on this elevation has more elaborate circle motifs on either side of the stack. The rear elevation of the original building is hidden by the 20th-century extensions.

The interior was not inspected at the time of survey, but it may retain features of interest.