Rodwayhill Lodge

Rodwayhill Lodge is a house dating from the third quarter of the 19th century, designed for T. Gambier-Parry. The lower part of the house is built of painted English bond brickwork with blue-painted quoins and patterning, likely intended as permanent polychromy. The upper part is timber-framed with rendered panels. It has a tiled roof. The house is two windows wide and one room deep, with its gable facing the road, and sits on a steep bank. A battered wall supports the gable below ground floor level, featuring a semi-circular headed recess with a rubbed brick arch using alternating blue and red bricks, and a buttress to the left. A chamfered brick plinth is present at ground floor level. The ground floor has a three-light casement window with diamond panes, covered by a lean-to tiled roof on curved brackets. Brick patterning is visible to the left. The first floor is jettied, with exposed joists and curved brackets at the ends. The timber framing consists of narrow panels, a low middle rail, and panels extending through the gable truss. It has paired three-light casements with weatherboard to the middle rail, tie beam, and collar above. The wide verge is a notable feature. The chimney is set diagonally and features a cross-shaped stack above a square base with a cogged oversailing course to the cap. On the right return, there is patterned brickwork and a half-glazed front door under a lean-to tiled roof with large, curved brackets, alongside a 20th-century two-light window. The first floor lacks an overhang, with weatherboard to the middle rail throughout. A jettied section on the left has three curved brackets, exposed joist ends, a four-light casement, weatherboard above, and to the tie beam of the gable. A large quatrefoil is located in the apex. A similar two-light casement is positioned to the right. The house occupies a prominent position above the road.