Seend Lodge

Seend Lodge is a house built around 1700, with alterations made in the early and later 19th century. It is constructed of red brick featuring decorative strips of black header bricks, with ashlar dressings and a steep hipped slate roof. The building has tall brick stacks at the rear and stands two storeys high with an attic, presenting a five-window facade that includes two hipped dormers. Notable architectural details include rusticated quoins, a moulded plinth and string-course, and a moulded timber eaves cornice.

Each side of the upper windows has decorative strips of black brick, with paired strips flanking the central window. The windows are 8-pane sashes set in flush unmoulded surrounds, likely dating from the early 19th century, and there is a flush ashlar band between the upper window heads and the eaves cornice. The ground floor features projecting two-window square bays on either side, also in a matching style, probably from the early 19th century, and a central set of glazed doors framed by a fine bolection-moulded stone surround topped with a broken pediment supported by consoles and an acanthus-cupped ball. Early 19th-century side-lights are present on either side.

On the east side, there is an added square bay on the ground floor. The rear of the building includes a later 19th-century rubble stone addition. To the left of the front, there is a two-storey section; the ground floor is from the 18th century and was raised in the 19th century, featuring a roof hipped to the west and a tall west stack. This section has cambered-head 19th-century sashes below, a brick band, and two 8-pane sashes above. A straight joint in the stable suggests that the ground floor of this section predates the stable.

Inside, the house has a fine closed string staircase with panelled newels and turned balusters, along with heavy chamfered centre beams in the front rooms. The house was associated with the clock-maker G. Newton, who died in 1681, and was likely rebuilt for his son, G. Newton. It served as one of the parish houses, leased to the Newtons and later to the Schomberg family from 1795, who purchased it in 1873. Captain I. Schomberg, who died in 1813, was the Deputy Controller of the Navy.