The Lodge

The Lodge is probably from the late 1850s and was designed alongside Grove House, a villa with its own grounds, sharing a matching Tudor style. It is built of grey limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins, a slate roof with crested ridge tiles, and stone stacks with ashlar shafts. The plan is an ‘L’ shape.

The single-storey lodge has a gable end facing Elm Grove Road, with deep verges and curly bargeboards decorated with blind trefoils and geometric shapes. A canted bay window is on the left-hand block, its hipped roof covered in lead rolls and featuring high-transomed casements with two panes below the transom. The flanking block is set back, roofed at a right angle, and contains a crank-headed window with a matching two-light casement. An original lean-to porch has a 20th-century front door, and the return has a row of trefoil-headed timber lights. The gable end to Elm Grove Road features deep verges and matching bargeboards, along with a shallow projecting stack with a moulded cornice and inward angled cap.

A stone rubble wall with a platband and irregular coping incorporates a crank-headed stone doorway with a plank door. This wall, likely originally leading to the garden, now obscures a flat-roofed 20th-century addition. The main block has a stack on its left end, with a shaft similar to the one on the right. Robert Manning Davy, a local landowner, owned Grove House and Oxenway Lodge in Membury by 1879.