Dyrham Lodge

Dyrham Lodge is a house, built around 1850, designed by Charles Underwood. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with lateral stacks and a roof that is not visible. The building follows a double-depth plan and is in a Neoclassical style.

The house is two storeys high with a basement and attic, and has a three-window facade. The symmetrical front features shallow wings with clasping pilasters rising to a frieze and dentil cornice. Above this is a tall attic storey with its own cornice and a balustrade incorporating central panels. The ground floor is banded, and a string course sits above the window sills. A left-hand, angled, distyle-in-antis Tuscan porch has a flagged slate floor with marble inlays, three niches, a plaster ceiling with cornice, and a two-leaf door with six panels. The ground floor windows are three-light with subsidiary pilasters, with architraves above. The rest of the ground floor features French windows, and the attic windows are 6/6-pane sashes, with 3/3-pane sashes in the attic. A one-window range is present on the right-hand return.

Inside, the entrance hall has fluted Ionic columns, a modillion cornice and a coffered ceiling with rosettes. A central rear stair hall features a stone open winder staircase with a moulded soffit, cast-iron balusters and foliate newels, a curtail, and a large semicircular-arched stained-glass stair light with panelled reveals. Ground-floor doors are panelled with reveals, while first-floor doors have panelled surrounds and cornices. Panelled shutters are also present.