Smoothyway Lodge

Smoothway Lodge is a lodge to Ugbrooke House, originally serving as the gamekeeper's cottage. It was built in the early 19th century. There are suggestions that the design may be attributed to Capability Brown, who landscaped Ugbrooke Park, or to William Spring, the clerk of works for the rebuilding of the house, or Joseph Rowe, the architect of the stables. However, the construction date is confirmed as 19th century rather than 18th century. The building is made of stone rubble faced with split larch poles and features a hipped thatched roof that extends down as a verandah supported by posts across the front, returning for one bay at each end. There is a central brick stack with four shafts.

The lodge has a picturesque rustic design, being single-storey with an attic. Each ground floor room is heated from the central stack, with an angle fireplace in each room's inner corner. The right-hand front room is larger and has a direct entry. There are small lean-tos on both sides; the left lean-to is likely a later addition, thatched and partly clad with split larch poles, while the right lean-to is a late 20th-century structure made of concrete block with a corrugated plastic roof.

The front of the lodge is symmetrical with two windows and a thatched verandah supported by four posts, extending to the lean-tos. The central arched doorway features an arched plank and stud front door, topped by an oval pattern of split logs. On either side of the front door are three-light windows with arched lights, each having six panes below a decorative triangular section of split logs. There are two similar windows on the left return and one on the right return, with a cobbled floor on the verandah. The interior is very plain, with stairs to the attic located against the rear wall, accessible from the rear right room. Smoothway Lodge is noted as the only conventionally picturesque lodge to Ugbrooke Park and is a remarkably pretty and complete example of its type.