Wychwood Lodge

Wychwood Lodge is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 16th century, with an addition from the early to mid-17th century, and underwent restoration and further additions in the late 19th or early 20th century. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof.

The layout follows a two-unit baffle-entry plan, with a projecting gabled cross-wing on the left. It has one storey and an attic. There is a dressed stone ridge stack that is off-centre to the right, which has a chamfered offset and four rendered square shafts. The left-hand cross-wing has a square dressed stone ridge stack with an offset, frieze, and cornice. The gables are parapeted with copings and bulbous finials at the peaks.

On the front, there is a pair of gabled full dormers on the right flanking a central full-height gabled porch. The window arrangement consists of a 1:1:1:1 pattern, featuring three-light recessed cavetto-moulded mullioned stone windows with returned hood moulds, and a four-light window on the ground floor to the left. The porch contains an ovolo-moulded Tudor-arched doorway with a returned hood mould and a panelled door from around 1900.

To the left, there is a c.1900 addition that is set back and includes a gabled dormer and two stone stacks. The rear of the building has a pair of gabled dormers and a central full-height gabled stair tower, with three-light recessed cavetto-moulded mullioned stone windows. The right-side cross-wing projects and features four-light cavetto-moulded mullioned stone windows, along with a dovecote flanking the attic window in the gable.

The interior has been partially inspected and includes chamfered spine beams. The central ground-floor room has a lozenge-pattern stone floor and a shallow ovolo-moulded Tudor-arched open stone fireplace. The right-hand ground-floor room features a shallow cavetto-moulded Tudor-arched open stone fireplace and introduced oak panelling. The doors have wave-moulded wooden architraves with stops. There is a semi-circular oak winder stair at the rear, which has a circular newel post and splat balusters leading to the attic landing.