Wood Lodge And Attached Steps, Walls And Piers

Wood Lodge, along with its attached steps, walls, and piers, is an early 19th-century lodge located in Blore with Swinscoe. It is constructed from coursed squared and dressed limestone, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, with plain tile roofs and coped verges topped with ball finials. The building is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and is aligned north-south, with a canted north end and a projecting north porch. The east and west sides each have a short projecting wing towards the northern end of the main building, aligned northeast-southwest and northwest-southeast, respectively.

The lodge is one storey with an attic and has a roughly 1:1:1 bay configuration. The central gabled porch features ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, with the ground-floor window having two lights and the attic window having three lights, both adorned with straight cyma reversa moulded dripstones. The porch is flanked by the canted sides of the main building, each containing a two-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window with a cyma reversa moulded dripstone. The set-back wings on either side have single-light windows.

Tudor arch openings on the east and west sides of the porch lead to a similar doorway in the north wall of the main building, which has a nail-studded door. Each side of the porch features a balustraded staircase with a moulded handrail that ends in a gate pier with a moulded cap, paired with a similar pier incorporated into a short retaining wall. The left-hand wall terminates in another gate pier to the northeast of the lodge, which pairs with a gate pier located approximately 10 yards northeast of the lodge. Wood Lodge was formerly a lodge to Ilam Hall.