Lodsworth House (West Wing, East Wing and North Court), and mounting block

Lodsworth House (West Wing, East Wing and North Court), and mounting block

A country house built between 1837 and 1839, designed by the architect Edward Blore for Hasler Hollist (née Capron), together with a stone mounting block.

The house is faced in coursed sandstone with ashlar-sandstone quoins and dressings, beneath slate pitched roofs with sandstone chimney stacks. It consists of a series of two-storey pitched-roof ranges set around a central light well, with an octagonal tower and hexagonal corner entrance to the west. To the north stands the former single-storey L-shaped service wing with a twentieth-century addition further north. The main rooms are arranged internally around a central staircase and hallway, with the former service stairs in the north-east corner. The house has been subdivided into three dwellings: the West Wing and East Wing, which comprise the former main house range, and the North Court, which consists of the former north service wing.

The main house is two-storey with attics and a cellar, with a three-storey tower attached to the south-west corner. The design is in a "Tudor" style with Scottish-Baronial influences. Most windows on the east, south and west elevations are casements with stone mullions and transoms on the ground floor and mullions on the upper floors; some are topped by label moulds. The north elevation consists mainly of sash windows of varying sizes. Below the eaves is a dentil course. The roofs are topped by single, double, triple and quadruple chimney stacks of ashlar stone with chamfer and stop detailing.

The west elevation includes the angled main entrance, now the entrance to the West Wing. It comprises a porch with a four-pointed archway and mullioned windows on the returns, topped by a pediment supported by kneelers with a carved Hollist-family crest in the centre. Within the porch is a two-leaf entrance door within a four-pointed arch, and behind is a two-storey hexagonal tower with a pyramidal roof. To the left of the porch is a canted bay and a gable-end. To the right is the three-storey octagonal tower topped by a flat roof with stone balustrading, which replaced the original conical roof in the mid-twentieth century, along with a hexagonal turret. On the south elevation is a three-window central range to the right of the tower, including a central door within a four-pointed arch. Further right is the gable end of the eastern cross-wing. Attached to the east elevation is a mid-twentieth-century flat-roof orangery. Behind it is the original east elevation; some ground-floor openings have been modified to create access from the orangery into the house. To the right is a ground-floor canted bay and above are four windows—two mullioned windows and two sashes. Within the attic are two dormer windows. Further right is a gable-end bay topped by kneelers and coping stones, which includes the entrance to the East Wing and a first-floor oriel window. To the north is the rear elevation of the main house and the former northern service wing, known as North Court, arranged around a small courtyard which includes two coal shoots that fed into the basement. The former service wing is single storey with pitched roofs. Several earlier openings have been blocked and there are a variety of casement and sash windows. On the west elevation is a late-twentieth-century small lean-to with French windows, and attached to the north end is a one-and-a-half storey, late-twentieth-century, double-pile extension which includes the main entrance to North Court.

Much of the original plan within the house's main range remains legible, with rooms arranged around the principal staircase. The building was divided roughly in half in the 1970s by blocking ground and first-floor hallways and doorways. The West Wing incorporates the octagonal tower and principal staircase, and the East Wing includes the former service staircase. The L-shaped northern service wing was also blocked off internally and is known as North Court. The house retains many mid-nineteenth-century timber architraves with panelled reveals, and six and four-panelled doors on all floors. The interior largely contains a classical-style decoration scheme. The surviving nineteenth-century joinery includes timber panelling, window shutters, inbuilt cupboards, alcoves and fire surrounds. In the West Wing, some of the room decoration and chimneypieces may be part of an early twentieth-century decoration scheme or later. The East Wing has been subject to more recent redecoration with most of the chimneypieces on this side dating to the late twentieth or early twenty-first century.

The main western entrance opens into a small hexagonal entrance lobby. Beyond, the central hallway contains the principal open-well timber staircase which has a curtail step, rounded handrail, barley-corn balustrading and contrasting dark-wood fluted newel posts with Corinthian capitals; the stairwell and landing are half-panelled. Opposite the stairwell is an elaborately carved timber fire surround with green-marble inset. The octagonal tower ground-floor room has fully panelled walls topped by plaster-cornicing decorated to imitate the woodwork, a timber chimneypiece topped by a carved mantel shelf with green-marble surround, inbuilt cupboards and arched alcoves. There is also a concealed panelled passageway between this room and the adjacent drawing room. The drawing room is decorated in a lighter classical style with panelled walls and an Adams-style fireplace; part of this scheme may be a later adaptation and the walls have been modified to incorporate later cupboards. Behind the stairwell is the kitchen with modern fittings. The East Wing has a separate entrance on the east elevation. The floor in the ground-floor hallway appears to have been slightly raised. This side of the building includes a modern kitchen and further reception rooms. The original service dogleg staircase is within this wing and has a simple timber handrail, rounded newel posts with square heads and stick balustrading.

In the West Wing is a mezzanine level with small bedrooms linked by a corridor to the north of the principal staircase; one room retains an early plain timber chimneypiece with metal fire grate. The staircase continues up to a first-floor landing which includes a hinged shelf to the left. The larger main bedrooms are on the first floor. A second set of stairs leads up to the second floor of the octagonal tower; above is a hatch providing access to the tower's roof. The East Wing first floor has further bedrooms, including one with a shallow coffered ceiling which appears to be a later addition. A set of stairs leads to the attic rooms at the top of this wing.

Beneath the house is a substantial brick and stone cellar with a brick-vaulted roof supported by brick pillars. It is divided into various cells and is accessed via a set of stone steps beneath the service staircase. The complex includes store rooms, a coal store with coal shoots, brick-lined floors with drainage, and large cast-iron pipes supplying heating and water to the house and also water to the former kitchen gardens.

The former north wing, North Court, was not inspected internally. It was converted into a single dwelling in the late twentieth century, including the extension which was adapted from a late-twentieth-century carport. An internal opening behind the service staircase that internally linked the north wing to the main house has been blocked.

In front of the west elevation stands a stone mounting block.