Warfleet Lodge

Warfleet Lodge is a ballroom and billiard room, now converted into a house, dating from approximately 1860 to 1880. It is located close to the south end of Warfleet House, to which it originally belonged. The building is constructed of plastered stone rubble with Bathstone dressings; the stacks have plastered brick chimneyshafts with rendered cornices and some old pots. The roof is concealed behind a parapet.

The plan consists of a large one-room building with an entrance porch on the right (north) end and a stair turret behind it, leading to an entrance lobby. A small ante-room is located at the other end, now with a secondary external door. The main room has been subsequently divided into bedrooms; a rear service block is also present.

The architectural style is Castellated Tudor Gothic. The symmetrical front has three windows, featuring stone-mullioned windows with cinquefoil heads and sunken spandrels. A canted bay window is present on the ground floor centre, with three forward lights and an embattled parapet, flanked by lancets with Tudor-style hoodmoulds. The first floor has a central lancet flanked by three-light windows, all with hoodmoulds. Moulded string courses are located at the first-floor, first-floor window-sill, and eaves levels. A castellated parapet obscures the roof. The end walls also feature the same style.

The porch has a two-light front window. A cranked-arch doorway, with a moulded surround and hoodmould, contains fielded-panel double doors under a leaded-glass overlight. The stair turret has a front lancet, and a three-light window to the end. Ground-floor windows contain a Tudor pattern of leaded glass. A doorway from the first-floor level to the roof of the porch contains a one-panel door with coverstrips, with similar doors inside. A fixed ladder from here to the upper roof indicates that the roofs were used as a viewing platform.

The interior retains sumptuous, high-quality craftsmanship in keeping with the Tudor theme. The main room features exposed beams and joists with richly-carved soffits. The room is dominated by a large, back-lit inglenook fireplace, which incorporates a hearth with cast-iron sides and dogs and an impressive overmantel. The overmantel is supported on paired Corinthian columns and features a riot of carved decoration, including heraldic centre panels, flanking caryatids, and delicate friezes. The porch is lined with oak panelling, carved in a style similar to the panelling in the entrance hall at Warfleet House.

The stair turret contains a large open-well stair with an open string, panelled newel posts (some full-height, others with carved heraldic beasts as finials), carved balusters, and a handrail. The stair windows contain colourful heraldic stained glass. The first floor was not inspected. The building was originally part of Warfleet House.