Blagdon Lodge

Blagdon Lodge is a rustic-style fishing lodge built around 1900 by the Bristol Waterworks Company on the south-west shore of Blagdon Lake, formerly known as the Yeo Reservoir. It may have been designed by Charles Hawksley as part of the Blagdon waterworks development, which took place between 1898 and 1905.

The lodge is timber-framed with whitewashed infill panels. It features a large stone-tiled pitched roof with overhanging, swept eaves and exposed rafter ends, and a tall brick chimney stack on the rear roof slope.

The building has a rectangular plan, encompassing a clubhouse to the front and a series of ancillary rooms including a vestibule, changing rooms, and toilets, accessible via a separate side entrance and corridor along the rear elevation. A small fishing licence booth is located on the side, and a paved outdoor fish weighing area is situated at the rear, south-east corner.

The west-facing three-bay elevation has three entrances with timber planked doors, each flanked to the left by a metal casement window. The north-facing lakeside front is four bays wide, with a central-left entrance to the clubhouse, situated below a hipped gabled roof projection. The entrance features a timber door with six panes of glazing to the top half, framed by fixed marginal lights on either side. To the left of the entrance is a three-light metal casement window, with two further windows to the right. The east-facing elevation has a large five-light metal casement window. The rear elevation is four bays wide with two 16-paned two-light Crittal windows to the left, a projecting bay containing the toilet block in the centre-right, and the open fish weighing area located under the roof canopy on the corner.

The interior is characterised by vertical timber panelling on the walls. The vestibule has large cast iron clothes hooks, while the clubhouse features large metal racks attached to the ceiling for storing fishing rods and equipment. A full-height red brick chimney breast with a bracketed timber mantel shelf is present.

The fishing lodge is located at the end of Holt Lane (off Park Lane) within landscaped grounds planted with mature specimen trees dating from around 1900. It enjoys fine views over Blagdon Lake and the surrounding landscape, including the meter house and dam. Two 20th-century buildings to the south of the lodge are not included within this designation.