Lower Lodge

Lower Lodge is a lodge located at the entrance to a disused drive leading to Black Hall, built around 1840 to 1845, with later 19th-century additions and alterations. The building is constructed from plastered stone rubble and features a low-pitched hipped rag slate roof with deep eaves and a large rendered axial stack at the center.

The original lodge consists of a single room plan with a fireplace at the back and a canted front entry that includes a verandah. There is a stair turret on the rear left corner and a porch on the rear right corner. At the back, there is a two-storey, one-room plan wing that contains the kitchen and has a back-to-back fireplace; this wing appears to be a slightly later 19th-century addition, predating the current verandah, which dates from either the late 19th or early 20th century. The porch on the right side has been raised to two storeys, likely in the late 20th century.

The exterior of the lodge is two storeys high, featuring a three-sided canted front with original eight-pane casements on each side, except for a blind recessed panel in the center of the first floor and the ground floor center, which has a doorway with a 19th-century glazed and flush-panelled door. The ground floor is surrounded by a late 19th or early 20th-century verandah with a slate hipped roof supported by thin chamfered wooden posts with brackets. The verandah has a small open gable over the central doorway, featuring a king post and struts. The ends of the verandah connect to a single-storey lean-to stair turret on the left and the porch on the right, which has an added second storey. The later 19th-century addition at the back has a similar treatment, with a hipped roof and deep eaves, and features later 19th-century 16-pane sash windows on both floors of the rear elevation.

Inside, there are simple 19th-century chimneypieces in both ground floor fireplaces and a winder stair in the stair turret. The lodge is not shown on the 1840 estate map.