Brize'S Lodge Farmhouse

Brize's Lodge Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the late 17th century. It was extended and possibly altered in the late 18th or early 19th century, with further enlargements made in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with stone dressings and has a 20th-century machine tile roof. It features a two-unit baffle-entry plan with later additions and stands two storeys tall with a gable-lit attic.

The southeast front has a central brick ridge stack with weathering and a two-window layout. The windows are 19th-century three-light wooden mullioned and transomed casements with segmental stone-arched heads, except for a late 20th-century ground-floor casement to the left. The central entrance is a half-glazed four-panelled door with two lower flush panels, accompanied by a two-part rectangular overlight and a segmental stone-arched head.

To the right, there is a probable late 18th-century addition of one storey and an attic, which is set back and features an integral stone end stack, a gabled semi-dormer with a 20th-century two-headed wooden casement, and a half-glazed segmental-headed door to the left. The rear of the main range includes a central two-storey half-hipped staircase tower and 2-light wooden casements with wooden lintels, as well as a late 19th-century stack.

Inside, there is a late 17th-century oak winder staircase at the rear that rises to the attic, featuring a probably late 18th-century Chinese Chippendale balustrade. The building has stop-chamfered spine beams with ogee stops. The right-hand ground-floor room has a blocked old fireplace and some 17th-century panelling in a cupboard to the right. The first floor was not inspected, but the occupant in April 1987 reported some panelling in the bedrooms. The house has likely been refenestrated, refronted, or even partly rebuilt in the late 18th or early 19th century, which is also when the staircase balustrade seems to date. The window details of the lower addition are similar to those of the main block.