Rodney Lodge

Rodney Lodge is a house, dating to around 1770, and subsequently extended and altered in 1884 by C Hansom. It is now used as a college. The house is constructed of limestone ashlar and render, with party wall stacks and a slate hipped roof. It is arranged with a double-depth plan and represents a mid-Georgian style, significantly modified by later Victorian additions.

The building is three stories high, with two-story wings, and features an eight-window front. The design likely began as a Palladian house, but has been altered over time. The central three-window section has a projecting ground floor added in 1884, while the upper floors retain details from the 18th century, including a modillion cornice and parapet. The ground floor is banded and includes a balustrade, an architrave framing a segmental-arched doorway with an overlight and an eight-panel door. Above the doorway is a segmental pediment and carved consoles. Segmental arches frame the paired ground-floor windows, which have eared architraves and keys. The first-floor windows have 4/4-pane sashes with 19th-century architraves, moulded keys, and shallow segmental pediments. The second floor features 3/3-pane sashes within shallow surrounds.

The left-hand block exhibits a rusticated ground floor and a rendered first floor. It has a left-hand doorway with a Gibbs surround, an overlight, and a six-panel door, along with two first-floor windows with ashlar surrounds and 6/6-pane sashes. The right-hand block, added in the 19th century, has first- and second-floor cornices. A central doorway is distinguished by banded jambs and a deep, bracketed canopy, while ground-floor windows have Gibbs surrounds. The first floor has plain windows, and a central elliptical-arched window is topped with a pediment and cartouche; all sashes are plate glass.

The rear elevation remains largely unaltered and includes a large, central stairwell with semicircular-arched glazing bars.

Internally, some original 18th-century features are visible, including a dogleg winder stair in the left-hand block with stick balusters and column newels. The majority of the interior is from the 19th century and includes an open-well stair in the centre of the building, six-panel doors, cornices, and fine fireplaces with Wedgwood panels.