Sholebroke Lodge

Sholebroke Lodge is a country house built around 1807, likely designed by James Morgan for the Honorable Charles Fitzroy, and extended in the mid-19th century. The building is probably constructed of brick with unpainted rendering that features incised masonry patterns, and it has hipped slate roofs with rendered internal stacks. The house has an L-plan layout, extending around an inner hall, and is three stories tall with a six-window range.

The principal facade faces south and includes a glazed garden door to the left of center and a plate glass sash window to the right. On the far left, there is a three-bay bow that rises to full height, featuring tall 12-pane sash windows on the ground floor. To the far right, a projecting bay contains a tripartite sash window on the ground floor, with 12-pane sashes on the first floor and 6-pane sashes in the attic. The exterior has a plinth and deep bracketed eaves.

The left garden elevation features tripartite sash windows on the ground floor, including one in a single-storey bay window. The entrance front to the north has a single-storey porch with a round-headed doorway that includes imposts, four-panel double-leaf doors, an overlight, and a keyblock with moulded timber eaves and a pediment. To the left of the porch is a two-storey service range with clerestory windows that light the inner hall behind.

Inside, the lodge boasts an impressive top-lit inner staircase hall with a cantilevered timber stair that rises along the sides, supported by turned balusters. There are also some original veined grey marble chimneypieces. The lodge was formerly the residence of the deputy warden or lieutenant of the Whittlebury Forest. James Morgan, who was an assistant to John Nash as the architect for the Department of Woods and Forests, exhibited a design for rebuilding Sholebroke Lodge at the Royal Academy in 1807, suggesting that the house was rebuilt during this time and attributing its design to Morgan.