Tudor Lodge

Tudor Lodge is a house built between 1837 and 1839 by Jeffrey Wyatville, with completion by Paxton. Constructed of brick, predominantly laid in a herringbone pattern, sandstone, and timber framing, it incorporates gabled and hipped stone slate roofs with cut-away corners. There are two ashlar ridge stacks and a stack rising from the roof pitch, along with decorative fretted bargeboards and finials. The building has a chamfered stone plinth and close-studded timber framing with diagonal braces, arranged in an irregular T-plan.

The east elevation features a gabled cross wing to the left, displaying a jettied first floor supported by moulded brackets. The ground floor of this wing has a two-light canted bay window with timber mullions, and a two-light mullioned window above. An angular, single-storey bay with a hipped roof and single-light windows flanks the two ranges, with a two-light gabled half dormer above. Further along the elevation, a porch with a single-light window and gabled roof extends over a two-bay timber arcade supported by paired chamfered columns with chamfered four-centred arches. The arcade leads to a doorway with a plank door and elaborate iron hinges, alongside a two-light mullioned window. A single-light gabled half dormer with a pointed light sits above.

The south elevation mirrors the design with a similar window arrangement in the gabled bay to the left. The west elevation has a projecting hipped roof bay, brick in its lower section, a doorway with stone quoins and lintel, and two-light and single-light windows on the ground floor, accompanied by a two-light gabled half dormer above. The north elevation is notable for its projecting arcade, and a gabled bay featuring a two-light canted bay window with a hipped roof and a two-light window above. An angled, single-storey stone bay to the right has a two-light bay window that comes to a point. Most windows are fitted with diamond leaded lights.

The design was featured in Loudon’s Encyclopaedia (Design X). Tudor Lodge was created as part of the picturesque model village commissioned by the Sixth Duke of Devonshire and largely executed by Paxton.