Chippenham Lodge

Chippenham Lodge is a gate lodge to Lucknam Park, built around 1840-1850. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a stone-tiled roof. The building is two stories high and includes an attached archway and a campanile tower designed in a Picturesque Italianate style.

The archway is elaborately moulded with a heavy keystone and panelled spandrels, featuring a heavy impost band above pedestrian archways on either side. Short sections of cornice sit over the spandrels, with a parapet that sweeps up over the central arched head panel. The tower, located to the right, consists of three stages. The lower two stages are square, with raised quoins and window surrounds on the north and south sides. The ground floor windows are square-headed, while the second stage features round-arched windows. The top stage is a lantern turret, with a square base that tapers to a narrower lantern, chamfered at the angles, and has a pair of round-arched lights on each face. It is topped with a bracketted eaves cornice and a plain tiled low pyramid roof with a weathervane.

To the left of the tower is the house, which has an ashlar stack on the side wall. The front gable is pedimented and topped with a ball finial. The building features raised quoins, a plinth, and a band, with quoins that terminate below the main pediment and cornice strips. Each floor has a tripartite unmoulded window with blank side panels and a central glazing bar sash with margin lights. The upper center window is arched and has a keystone.

The door is located in the west side wall, accessed from the left pedestrian archway, with one window range to the right. The south end wall, facing Lucknam Park, has a pedimental gable and a lower one-room range beyond, which also features a pedimental gable and raised corner piers. There is one south end window in a raised surround with a bracketted sill, and one west side round-arched window with a moulded band at the impost level. To the left of the house is a short stretch of coped ashlar block wall, leading to a curved ramp down and an east end ashlar pier with a corniced cap and ball finial.