Crosby Lodge

Crosby Lodge is a hotel and restaurant that was originally built as a house between 1807 and 1810, possibly designed by Peter Nicholson and William Reid for David Kennedy of Carlisle. The building features English garden wall bond brickwork, with a tower made of coursed red sandstone rubble walls and stone dressings. The roof is concealed by parapets.

The garden front is two storeys high and consists of three bays, flanked by two three-storey, single-bay towers that were added in the mid-19th century. There are also further 20th-century extensions on both sides. The central segmental two-storey bay window has five rounded gauged-brick arches, which were altered in the mid-19th century. Above this bay window is a central niche, flanked by two flat-headed windows with stone surrounds, all of which are casement windows with margin glazing bars on the ground floor. The building has two recessed bays with cross-mullioned windows on the ground floor and double windows above, also with stone surrounds.

Originally, the house included the central section with flanking single-storey wings, but now it has additional stone and brick towers with similar windows and a castellated parapet. A 20th-century single-storey, two-bay extension on the left is made of brick and is in keeping with the rest of the building. On the right, there is a two-storey, single-bay extension from the 20th century, also in brick with a castellated parapet, which extends around to the entrance front.

The entrance front features a stepped brick porch with a moulded gauged-brick surround and squared brick pilasters that support a wrought-iron lamp bracket and an open brick parapet. The ground floor windows have chamfered stone surrounds and hood-moulds. The building also has ashlar quoins, a castellated brick parapet, and brick chimney stacks. There is an arched stable entrance to the right. The listing does not include any outbuildings. Documents related to the construction of the house can be found in the County Record Office in Carlisle, specifically in the Kennedy Papers.