Twyford Lodge

Twyford Lodge is a small country house or villa built in the late 18th century, with additions from the 19th century and around 1967. The building is constructed of brick in header bond, featuring a stone cornice and slate roofs behind a parapet. This Georgian villa has three storeys above a cellar and a three-bay front, with full-height bays at either end. It is two bays deep, with wings at the rear behind the end bays; the right wing includes a 19th-century ballroom, while the left wing has a 20th-century range replacing an older service range.

The west front sits on a plinth that contains openings in the end bays leading to the cellar. The central doorway features a painted stone Doric porch, which was infilled in the 19th century with double doors that are two-thirds glazed, flanked by windows on either side. This is accessed by a flight of three stone steps in front of a narrow, slightly projecting central bay. Each side of the central bay has wide 18th-century 12-pane sash windows with rubbed brick heads and 19th-century sliding louvred shutters. Above the porch is a tall eight-large-pane sash window on the landing, with 18th-century 12-pane sashes on either side. The second floor has 18th-century six-pane sashes. All windows feature rubbed brick arches and stone sills.

The building is topped with a pointed dentilled stone cornice and a low parapet with stone coping. The left end has a full-height round bay with curved windows similar to those in the side bays, while the right end features a full-height canted bay with an early 19th-century timber-floored verandah balcony, which has wrought iron and a tented lead roof on the first floor. An unusual 19th-century weathervane is located above this bay on the roof. The interior, originally from the 18th century, has been altered in the 19th century and features a full-height open well staircase set longitudinally behind the central bay.