Wychwood Lodge

RAMSDEN HIGH STREET SP3515 (South-west side) 18/99 Wychwood Lodge 12/09/55

GV II*

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 with early to mid-C17 addition; late C19 or early C20 restoration and additions. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof. Two-unit baffle-entry plan with projecting gabled cross-wing to left. One storey and attic. Dressed stone ridge stack off-centre to right with chamfered offset and 4 rendered square shafts with frieze and cornice and square dressed stone ridge stack to left-hand cross-wing with offset, frieze and cornice. Parapeted gables with copings and bulbous finials at apices; pair of gabled full dormers to right flanking central full-height gabled porch. 1:1:1:1 window front; 3-light recessed cavetto-moulded mullioned stone windows with returned hood moulds, 4-light ground-floor window to left. Ovolo-moulded Tudor-arched doorway in porch with returned hood mould and c.1900 panelled door. c.1900 addition set-back to left with gabled dormer and 2 stone stacks. Rear: pair of gabled dormers and central full-light gabled stair tower; 3-light recessed cavetto-moulded mullioned stone windows. Cross-wing projecting to right; 4-light cavetto-moulded mullioned stone windows, with dovecote flanking attic window in gable. Interior partially inspected: chamfered spine beams. Central ground-floor room with lozenge-pattern stone floor and shallow ovolo-moulded Tudor-arched open-stone fireplace. Right-hand ground-floor room has shallow cavetto-moulded Tudor-arched open stone fireplace and introduced oak panelling. Wave-moulded wooden architraves to doors with stops. Semi-circular oak winder stair to rear with circular newel post and splat balusters to attic landing.

Listing NGR: SP3528915409