Devon Lodge And Forecourt Plinth And Piers

Devon Lodge is a purpose-built Freemason's Lodge constructed in 1867. It features squared Devon limestone rubble with cream freestone dressings and has crested slate roofs. The building is designed in the Gothic Revival style, characterized by its Middle Pointed elements.

The lodge has a rectangular plan consisting of two blocks and is a single storey high. The front facade includes a two-window range, with the main block displaying a forward-facing gable. The front and right side are enhanced by off-set buttresses that rise from the plinth to a moulded off-set sill string course. At the apex, there is a wrought-iron Mason's star on a stone finial above an elongated quatrefoil window. The paired 2-light plate-tracery leaded windows, featuring quatrefoils between the lights, are adorned with hoodmoulds and weathered sills. The sill string course rises at the center, flanking two stone plaques inscribed with "Devon Lodge" and "1867 A.D." around a central buttress.

To the left, the entrance is set in a coped wall and features a shouldered arch above a planked door with an integral overlight. The right side of the main block has exposed rafter ends and four leaded trefoil windows, with the central buttress extending to the eaves. The rear block is gabled with wide eaves and includes a large 4-light plate-glass mullioned and transomed window with chamfered arrises, set under a cream brick shallow pointed arch. There are also three small shallow pointed-arched windows with 20th-century glazing set into the plinth of the rear block.

Connecting the two blocks is a lower range that features a tall planked door with a pointed overlight, positioned nearly one meter up the wall. The forecourt is enclosed by a coped revetment wall, which includes two gate piers on the left and one pier at the right-hand corner, all made of squared Devon limestone with stepped pyramidal caps. The interior has not been inspected.