Puddington Lodge Including Service Rooms Adjoining To North

Large house dating to circa 1840-50 with some late 19th-century modernisations. The building is constructed of plastered rubble with rubble stacks fitted with plastered brick chimney shafts and a slate roof with black ridge tiles.

The plan comprises a double-depth main block facing south with large front room and service rooms behind. On the right (east) side is a cross-wing projecting forward which contains the large entrance hall and main stairs. Recessed at the left (west) end is a parlour range set under parallel roofs on the same axis as the main block. There are end stacks and a rear lateral kitchen stack to the main range, and a front end stack to the western parlour block. The building rises to 2 storeys with attics to the main block.

The architecture displays restrained early Victorian Tudor gothic styling. The main front shows 4 windows to the main range and 1 to each of the wings. A stucco flat plat band crosses the whole front at first floor level, curving upwards over the window on the left wing. Another stucco flat plat band appears on the main block below the attic windows.

The main door is positioned in the gabled front of the right wing within an elliptical-headed archway. It is an original double 6-panel door with a fanlight featuring a gothic pattern of glazing bars and panelled reveals. At ground floor level, the main range has round-headed French windows with glazing bars in square-headed embrasures at the right end, and a blind recess of similar proportions right of centre. Another French window is positioned left of centre. At the left end is a late 19th-century projecting bay window with canted sides and pointed arch windows with glazing bars and narrow margin panes containing coloured glass; the front window includes painted heraldic glass.

The left wing has a tall ground floor sash with glazing bars and margin panes. The first floor of the main block features round-headed windows with gothic pattern glazing bars over 2-light casements with glazing bars. The embrasures have moulded stucco hoodmoulds. A blind window right of centre has painted glazing pattern. The wings each side have similar casements and moulded stucco hoodmoulds but with ogee heads and gables over with shaped bargeboards. Low square-headed attic casements with glazing bars appear on the main block, though 2 to the right are painted on blind recesses. A plain eaves cornice runs along the main range on a series of shaped wooden brackets.

A late 19th-century lead-roofed verandah spans the whole of the front on plain circular-section cast iron posts. A 19th-century cast iron rainwater head and drain pipe appears in the angle between the main and left parlour ranges.

The left range has a double-gabled end with bargeboards and includes a single sash window to the first floor rear with glazing bars and margin panes. The first floor stucco plat band is carried round the right side, which includes a tall 12-pane sash in an ogee-headed arch with a small gable over with shaped bargeboards. Most windows in the rear elevation are 20th-century replacements, though some originals remain on the first floor as casements with glazing bars and triangular heads rising into the eaves with gablets over.

The interior contains much 19th-century joinery and plasterwork of good quality. The main staircase is a 20th-century replacement. It is possible the main block roof was raised in the late 19th century to accommodate the attics.