Hornapark

Hornapark is a lodge built in 1867 for Henry Bradshaw, serving Lifton Park. It features a mix of polychromatic brick and stone with granite dressings and rusticated granite quoins. The ornamental slate roofs are gabled at the ends and adorned with fleur de lis cresting along the ridges. There are two stone and brick stacks with round-headed recesses and moulded cornices, showcasing a vigorous High Victorian Gothic style.

The building has a double depth plan under a two-span roof, consisting of a single storey, attic, and basement. The symmetrical south front has two windows and overhanging eaves, with the roof gabled out to the front in the center, featuring decorative blind Gothic timber tracery plastered between. A central gabled stone porch includes a moulded depressed arched stone doorway with a two-leaf half-glazed front door that has Gothic lights, along with a datestone in the gable.

On either side of the porch are granite four-light bay windows with granite coping. The timber cross windows display Gothic tracery, with quatrefoils above the transom and trefoil-headed lights below. Panels of ornamental Gothic ironwork extend from the corners of the eaves to the corners of the walls. The west end of the south block features an embattled four-light granite bay window with a granite transom and timber traceried lights, while the west end of the north block is slightly advanced and has a three-light granite transomed window with traceried lights.

Friezes of timber quatrefoils and trefoil-headed arcading, plastered between, fill the gable ends of both blocks. The east side has two gables and the north side has one, all with similar decorative blind tracery. Although the interior was not inspected, Hornapark is noted as the most elaborate of the three lodges to Lifton Park. Historical photographs reveal that it once featured remarkable pierced Gothic bargeboarding, which has since been lost, but it retains all its other contemporary external details.