Lodge Cottage With Attached Barn And Stables

Lodge Cottage with attached barn and stables is a mid-18th century former service block for Rylstone Lodge, with later 18th and early 19th century alterations. The building is constructed of gritstone rubble and has a graduated stone slate roof. The main house is a two-storey, two-bay structure with a rear wing; a lower three-bay barn adjoins it to the left, with the first bay projecting as a two-storey, two-bay stable wing. Quoins are present. The front facade of the house features a central six-panel door in a plain stone surround. Flanking and first-floor windows are three-light, flat-faced mullion windows, where the mullions are slightly recessed and one mullion has been removed from each window to accommodate side-hinged casements. Corniced end stacks are visible to the left and a taller corniced stack rises from the ridge above the entrance. The barn to the left is built in a similar style to the house. The cart entrance, on the right of the barn, has double board doors with quoined jambs and a three-piece stone lintel, alongside a row of pigeon holes above. A byre door is located to the left, featuring chamfered quoined jambs and a massive lintel, with a square loading door positioned above. The projecting wing on the right return has a board door with a fanlight above, set in a projecting stone surround with imposts and a keystone. A first-floor doorway is present in a plain surround to the right. A gable end window has a surround similar to the doorway to the right; the lower half is blocked, and the upper half has ten small panes with radial glazing bars. There are five tiers of pigeon holes with stone ledge perches to the gable, along with shaped kneelers and gable coping. The rear of the barn has a 17th-century doorway with a chamfered quoined surround and a segmental-headed lintel; this opening has been reduced to a window. The interior was not inspected during a resurvey. The house and barn may have origins in the 17th century and were incorporated as service buildings for Rylstone Lodge.