Steer Point Lodge

Steer Point Lodge is an early 19th-century detached house, possibly built on the site of an earlier structure. It has an L-plan layout with a boathouse at river level, situated beneath the main block. The construction is of rubble, with some slate hanging, and a slate roof. The main south-facing front features a central projecting porch with a decorative bargeboard above a granite four-centred opening with a roll mould and square head, likely reused from elsewhere, and a small four-pane casement window above. To the left is a two-light small pane casement, and above that, a flat-roofed dormer with slate cheeks containing a similar casement. To the right are two twelve-pane sashes with trefoil heads to the top panes, set into a slate-hung wall. The river-facing return front has a canted oriel with rendered corbelling above a large square opening to the boathouse. A further twelve-pane sash, identical to those on the front, is also present there, alongside a large square stack in the internal angle and a set-back terrace wing with a pair of 20th-century French doors. The west front has two gables, one with raised slated coping. The ground floor features two-light small pane casements flanking a part-glazed 19th-century door under a rudimentary drip course, and a low three-light casement. There are two small-pane casements to each gable, and a 20th-century stainless steel flue pipe is located externally to the right. The rear elevation mirrors the front, with casements under two dormers with casements. Inside, a plank and batten door with nail-head detail leads to a central circular wooden staircase. To the right is a main room featuring a segmental plaster ceiling over a brattished cornice, original four-centred panelled doors, and a four-centred Tudor-style fireplace flanked by Tudor-head panels in low relief.