Park Lodge

Park Lodge is a house dating from 1840-42, built in the Italianate style by John Robertson for Mr Condell, physician to the Duke of Devonshire. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with a hipped and gabled Westmorland slate roof and overhanging bracketed eaves, and has ashlar lateral stacks. The building has an irregular plan and elevations.

The garden front is dominated by a central block. An off-centre square porch features a glazed door with sidelights and a round arch. It is flanked by single light round-arched windows with bracketed sills and raised hoods on impost blocks. To the left, a tripartite window has round-arched outer lights and a raised hoodmould. The first floor features a panelled pilaster in the centre. To the right is a tripartite window with raised stonework around the head and a pair of round-arched sashes with raised surrounds. A slightly lower, recessed bay to the right is a later addition, featuring a canted bay and two 2-light casements above. A projecting wing to the left may also be an addition; it has a single storey doorway with plain casements. The entrance elevation has a recessed bay to the left with a 2-light casement to ground floor and a single light above, each with raised stone heads. A square porch with a hipped roof, keyed moulded round-arched doorway and a small square window is situated in the angle formed with the projecting bay to the right. The projecting bay has a tripartite casement window to the ground floor with a bracketed sill and hoodmould, and an arcaded ashlar balcony above a 2-light window. A recessed bay to the right again has a tripartite window with round-arched outer lights, a bracketed sill, and a hoodmould. Decorative diagonal brackets feature to the eaves. Set back to the right is a 3-bay timber arcade with an open balustraded parapet.

A square tower rises from above the staircase, featuring angle pilasters and triplets of round-arched windows in two directions, topped with a pyramid roof. The interior includes an open string staircase with carved tread ends and a round-arched balustrade, with a round arch and key and impost blocks to each tread. Joinery details include sunk panels with extruded angles.