Wood House Lodge

Wood House Lodge is a Grade II listed building located in South Tawton, constructed between 1899 and 1905 by either Thomas Mawson or Dan Gibson. The lodge features roughcast walls and stacks made of stone rubble or brick, with granite ashlar detailing and a slate roof. Originally designed as a 2- or 3-room cottage facing the drive to the north, it has a T-shaped plan with a two-room main block and a gable-end stack on the right. A gabled bay projects forward just left of center, which may have originally been a separate room and includes a projecting lateral stack on the left side. The entrance porch is situated at the angle between the front bay on the right and the main block.

Around 1980, the interior was remodeled, combining the rooms into one and adding new service rooms at the rear. The lodge is a single-storey structure. The exterior features a gabled front end with a canted bay window that has two lights on each side, made with granite mullions and roll-moulded elliptical head lights, along with sunken spandrels. The window contains replacement rectangular panes of leaded glass. To the right of the bay is a plain granite mullioned two-light window with a simple slate drip course above, and a three-light version is found in the right end wall. The porch has a panelled oak door, and the roofs are gable-ended.

The interior largely reflects the changes made during the 1980 renovation. This lodge is part of a broader landscaping scheme designed by Mawson to accompany the rebuilding of Wood House, which he regarded as one of his major achievements. The work is documented in T H Mawson's book, "The Art and Craft of Garden Making," which includes extensive notes and illustrations of Wood House.