Craddock Lodge

Craddock Lodge is a detached house dating from the mid-17th century, with significant alterations and extensions in the 19th century. The house is constructed of rendered cob and stone, with a hipped and gable-ended slate roof. Originally built to a traditional three-room, through-passage plan, with the service end on the left of the passage, the house was later reworked in the early 19th century. This refurbishment created a symmetrical front facing east over the garden, incorporating the former inner room wing as the main range. The original 17th-century fabric is largely obscured by the later alterations.

The house now presents a symmetrical three-window front on the east. The upper floor has 16-pane hornless sash windows, flanked by a central 12-pane hornless sash window. A central panelled door is set between a pair of large 16-pane hornless sash windows on the ground floor. The south front retains four 3-light casement windows on the first floor, two of which date from the 19th century and have 8 leaded panes per light. The ground floor of this front features three 16-pane hornless sash windows.

The rear of the house has horned sash windows and some later casements. A stair turret under a catslide roof contains the staircase to the rear of the main range, and is lit by a tall round-headed window with intact decorative ferramenta. Inside, there are remains of a plain stud and plaster partition and part of a doorway arch between the hall and inner room. The hall retains two and a half ceiling beams with composite moulded chamfers, featuring cyma reversa and cavetto detailing. External end stacks, now largely dismantled, formerly heated the original service end, while internal lateral and end stacks serve the service end rear wing. All stacks have brick shafts.