Merlewood Lodge

Merlewood Lodge is a lodge built in 1853, located in Grange-over-Sands. The building features roughcast walls with limestone dressings and a slate roof, and it is two storeys high. The north wall, which faces the driveway, includes a one-bay gabled wing on the right. The windows are fitted with glazing bars and have stone surrounds. The ground floor window consists of three lights with timber mullions and has a hood mould. The first-floor window has a triangular head and a central mullion. To the left, there is a bay with a ground-floor window that has two pointed lights separated by a timber mullion, along with a first-floor dormer window designed as a corbelled oriel. A deep gabled timber porch with glazed sides is located to the right, at the angle with the gabled wing. The left-hand return gable wall, which faces east towards the main road, has a one-bay design featuring a timber canted bay window on the ground floor and carved bargeboards. The rear gable wall of the right-hand wing displays a plaque dated '1853'.