Potterspury Lodge (Rudolph Steiner School)

Potterspury Lodge, now known as the Rudolf Steiner School, is a country house dating from the late 17th century, with significant alterations and additions made around 1900. The building is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings and features a plain-tile roof along with brick lateral and internal stacks. It is a two-storey structure with a seven-window range, although the original plan is unclear.

The original three-bay center of the house projects forward and includes a central part-glazed door framed by a moulded eared ironstone surround. This is flanked by panelled pilasters that support console brackets, which in turn hold up a pulvinated frieze with a blank tablet at the center and a broken segmental pediment that once framed an urn or cartouche of arms. The doorcase and windows on either side are now incorporated into a large canted stone porch added around 1900. The building features 12-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors, each with flat-arched heads.

The center of the house has chamfered quoins, a plain parapet with a segmental raised center, and ball finials. A timber octagonal cupola, also from around 1900, sits atop the roof and is supported by Tuscan columns, topped with a domed lead roof and a weather-vane shaped like a sailing ship. To the left, there is a two-storey-and-attic projecting wing with a Venetian window on the ground floor and sash windows on the first floor, along with a hipped roof featuring a segmental dormer, dating to around 1900. Additional structures have been added to the rear.

Inside, the lodge features an open-well staircase with twisted balusters on bulbous feet, and one room retains 17th-century panelling.