Combe Garden

Combe Garden is a hunting lodge that has been converted into a dwelling, built around 1900. The building is rendered over rubble and features decorative timber framing on the first floor. It has a triple Roman tiled pyramid roof with catslide roofs at the rear and brick stacks, including an external stack on the service wing. The lodge is designed in an Arts and Crafts style and has an L-plan layout, with an open hall house and a service wing at the back.

The north-west front has two storeys and consists of four bays, with all windows featuring leaded lights. To the left, there are two 2-light oriel windows next to a 6-light hall window with quatrefoil heads, and a canted oriel on the corner to the right. The ground floor displays a mix of contemporary fenestration, including a lean-to roofed porch in the third bay on the left, a 3-light window, and a stable-type door with decorative hinges. The right return (south-west) front has a central oriel, an oeil-de-boeuf window to the right, and a small 2-light window to the left, with a one-bay verandah or sleeping porch on the ground floor. The south-east front features two oriel windows, with the service wing set back to the right.

Inside, the lodge retains a nearly complete set of original fittings made from dark stained softwood, including applied half-timbering, built-in cupboards with decorative hinges, and window seats in the oriels. The interior has an unusual layout with a full-height hall that has a fireplace on the left, opening into a single-storey room on the right. A carved design of swans is set into a beam, and there is a gallery facing with a movable screen that forms a room on the first-floor landing, which is top-lit and has bedrooms opening off it. The interior is reminiscent of a Bavarian hunting lodge and is believed to have been built by the Lovelaces from Ashley Combe. It was formerly known as Windrush.