Harringworth Lodge

Harringworth Lodge is a hunting lodge, now a farmhouse, with 13th-century origins. The present building dates from the 15th century, built for the la Zouche family, with additions from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and early 19th-century extensions. It is constructed of regular coursed limestone, limestone ashlar and close-studded timber framing, with a Collyweston slate roof.

The building originally had a rectangular plan with probably one large chamber, now an irregular T-shape. It is two storeys with an attic. The main front comprises five irregular bays. The bay to the right of centre breaks forward as an early 19th-century wing at right angles to the main range. The centre two bays have a two-window range of 19th and 20th-century casements on the first floor, and one 19th-century casement on the ground floor set in a chamfered wood surround under a 16th-century hood mould. A four-panel door stands to the right, under a wood lintel, with a single-stage buttress to its left. To the left, a one-window range with a 19th-century casement has a 19th-century plank door under a wood lintel, flanked by two-stage ashlar buttresses. The ground floor of this range is mainly ashlar with a section of regular coursed limestone at its centre. The upper floor of the centre two bays is timber-framed and now rendered. A moulded stone string course runs between floors, with a moulded stone cornice at the eaves. Stone stacks sit at the ridge ends. The far-right bay has a one-window range of cross-windows with an iron casement under wood lintels. The right return wall of the early 19th-century wing has a similar two-window range. A four-panelled door to the right, under a wood lintel, now serves as the main entrance. The left return of the same wing has an irregular one-window range of cross-windows under wood lintels. A 19th-century one-window range attached to the far left has casement windows under shallow stone arches.

The rear elevation features a lean-to with a catslide roof to the left of centre. A three-window range of casements runs across the first floor centre and right. One casement window on the first floor far left stands under a wood lintel with two large corbels at cill level, probably medieval and reset. A central four-panel door is under a wood lintel, with a doorway in the return wall of the lean-to. The lower walls are mainly ashlar with a central infill section of regular coursed limestone corresponding to similar work on the main front. The upper floor is timber-framed with rendering and some evidence of stone slate infill. A moulded stone string course runs between floors, with the centre section on this elevation in timber.

The entrance hall, in the early 19th-century wing, contains a staircase with a stick balustrade, square newels and quarter landings. A 15th-century two-light stone mullion window to the right of the stair is set in the main wall of the original building and has cusped ogee-head lights with a blank shield in the spandrels. The room to the left of the main front has a large open fireplace, now blocked. The centre room has corbelling at ceiling level supporting first-floor fireplaces and a large spine beam. Two rooms to the far left of the main front each retain remains of open fireplaces; one room has a stopped-chamfered bressumer and spine beam. A first-floor room to the far right has a stop-chamfered stone door surround. The original roof remains above the centre three bays with swell head posts, cambered tie beams, clasped purlins and curved wind braces. The bays to the left and right of the centre three bays were added in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

The deer park was first created by William de Cantelupe in 1234. A large fish pond to the south of the lodge was probably also part of the original park.