Shirburn Lodge

Shirburn Lodge is a house built around 1730 for Joseph Collett and enlarged around 1830. It features knapped flint rubble with brick quoins and dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in the early Georgian style, standing two storeys high with an attic. The symmetrical façade has a five-window range and a central two-storey porch. The keyed round-arched doorway leads to a two-panelled double-leaf door with a decorative fanlight, and there is a six-panelled inner door. Over the six-pane sashes, which have thick glazing bars, are gauged brick flat arches. A moulded string course and a gauged brick moulded cornice can be seen beneath the parapet. The hipped roof includes three dormers and symmetrical end stacks. The rear elevation is similar, featuring sashes with surrounds and a flat hood over the central doorway. An extension to the right, built around 1830, is made of Flemish bond brick and has a five-window front range with similar arches over sashes flanking a central canted bay and first-floor sashes, along with a stone moulded cornice.

Inside, there is a panelled open hall to the right with a two-bay Doric screen and an open-well staircase featuring turned balusters and urn finials on the newel posts. The ground and first-floor rooms are also panelled and include fireplaces. An early 18th-century fireplace is located in the ground-floor rear left room, while early 18th-century fireplaces and panelled dados are found in the rear left and rear first-floor rooms. The tall early 19th-century room to the right has bolection-moulded panelling. The house was purchased by Lord Macclesfield around 1775 and served as a dower house.