Lodge Farmhouse

SPELSBURY DITCHLEY PARK SP31NE 10/190 Lodge Farmhouse

GV II*

Farmhouse, former park feature or lodge. c.1770. Coursed rubble stone with stone dressings and Welsh slate hipped roof. Stone and block central ridge stacks. Gothick details. 2-storey. 3-window range of 2-light casements in arched and moulded surrounds. Tall blocked windows to ground floor. Central bay breaks forward slightly and has central door up flight of steps. Fanlight with gothick tracery. Moulded hood mould over. A single-light narrow arched window to either side. Plinth and moulded cornice. Left and right sides have single glazing-bar sashes with Gothick tracery to the arched heads. Rear was principal front to the park. The centre is canted forward and has an open archway with 4-centred head to each side. Moulded impost band and heads. Openings now blocked with recessed walling which has part-glazed door and sashed windows. 5 quatrefoil windows above and to sides all with fine and elaborate decorative glazing. Ground floor either side of canted bay has a glazing-bar sash with gothick tracery to the arched head. Moulded hood mould. The moulded cornice has a rim of pendentures as its lowest element. Interior: dog-leg staircase. Hexagonal kitchen was formerly the open garden room behind the canted bay and retains a triglyph frieze in part. Forms a group and intended formal composition with stable approximately 5 metres south-east (q.v.) and stable approximately 5 metres south-west (q.v.). Overlooks a small valley in Ditchley Park where there was formerly a lake.

Listing NGR: SP3937919950