Steppes Lodge

Steppes Lodge is a circa mid-19th century lodge built for the Morval Estate. It is constructed of stone rubble with an original banded slate roof, featuring a gable end on the right and a splayed gable end to the projecting gabled wing on the left. The splayed gable end has trefoil-decorated bargeboards, and there is a gabled half-dormer above on the right. The rear has a lateral rendered brick chimney stack serving the room on the right and a rendered brick axial chimney stack on the left-hand side of the passage. The building likely has a 2- or 3-room plan, with one room to the right of the entrance and one or two rooms in a crosswing to the left. A verandah runs across the front of the crosswing, continuing to the right as a porch over the main doorway and to the left, forming a covered way to a lean-to outshut on the left end. The lodge is one storey and attic in height on the right and two storeys on the left. The front has an asymmetrical 2-window range. The one-storey and attic wing to the right has a small gabled half-dormer and a doorway to the left, set in an angle with the higher two-storey crosswing to the left, which has a splayed gabled front with a slated verandah supported by square granite posts with chamfered corners. The verandah continues to form porches - the main doorway to the right and an outshut doorway to the left, with a cobbled pavement below. The ground floor includes a 20th century door to the outshut on the left, a circular window, and a 19th century 3-light casement in the gable end. There is also a 20th century plank entrance door in the angle and a 19th century 2-light casement to the right with a moulded frame and hoodmould. The first floor features a 19th century 2-light casement with a moulded frame and hoodmould in the gable end on the left, and a triangular-headed, probably 19th century, casement to the right in the 19th century gabled half-dormer with decorative, trefoil-ornamented bargeboards. The interior has not been inspected.