Hampden'S Lodge

Hampden's Lodge is a small house dating from the early 17th century, although it was largely rebuilt in the 19th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with yellow brick dressings, featuring a plain-tile roof and red brick stacks set on a stone base. The house has a two-unit lobby-entry plan and stands two storeys tall. The front has two windows, accented by a red-brick dentil course and yellow brick quoins, with a central plank door flanked by two-light casement windows that have segmental arches. Similar windows are found on the first floor. A massive central stack is topped with a cluster of three diagonal shafts. The right gable wall is timber framed and rendered, sitting above a rubble and tiled outbuilding. The rear of the house, which is from the 19th century, features two first-floor half dormers and a round-headed arch. Inside, there are built-up back-to-back fireplaces in the central stack, exposed framing in the right gable wall, heavy chamfered and stopped beams, and plank doors. It is likely that the roof was raised and the house extended to the rear in the 19th century.