Lodge Farm House

Lodge Farm House is a late 14th century first floor hall house, which may have originally served as a hunting lodge. It was enlarged and altered around 1600. The building features ironstone walls and a gabled tiled roof with stone eaves courses, along with brick end stacks. It has two storeys and an attic, with a lean-to rear extension from around 1600 made of brick under a catslide roof, which includes a large brick stack.

The ground floor consists of an original undercroft with two rooms and a central cross-passage. The first floor contains a hall that was originally open to the roof but was ceiled over around 1600, along with a solar. The main elevation has a central doorway with traces of an arch. The ground floor has two modern casement windows, while the first floor features two 2-light traceried windows, with the mullions removed to accommodate modern casements. There is also a single-light 14th century window and a small window that once lit a former newel stair.

Internally, the ground floor showcases timber-framed partitions and large chamfered ceiling beams. The hall on the first floor includes a 14th century fireplace and a blocked 14th century window in the rear wall. A 14th century panelled partition that originally separated the hall from the solar has been reset, while the current partition to the solar is made up of 18th century panelling. The solar features a moulded ceiling beam and wall plates, along with a 14th century fireplace and an arch leading to a former garderobe. The first floor of this end of the house has brick paving, likely from around 1600. The roof is of arch-braced collar form with wind-bracing. The kitchen, dating from around 1600, has a large open fireplace that has been partially built up. Lodge Farm House is of exceptional interest, retaining many medieval features, although the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (RCHM) Survey does not fully interpret it. The building was under repair at the time of the survey.