Whashton Lodge

Whashton Lodge is a house dating from the early 18th century, with later additions. It is constructed from coursed rubble sandstone and has an artificial stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features a rear outshut that includes a cart-shed. The main structure has five bays, with an additional bay of lesser quality on the right and a single-storey outbuilding on the left. The main range has quoins and a central 20th-century six-panel door with an overlight, set within an ashlar architrave. There are 20th-century sash windows in ashlar surrounds, which were previously fitted with central flat-faced mullions. The right bay is of inferior rubble and has quoins, along with a blocked doorway. The roof has shaped kneelers and ashlar coping, with stacks at both ends of the main range and a corniced stack at the right end of the right bay.

The left outbuilding is made of roughly coursed rubble and features two 19th-century six-pane casement windows, along with a blocked doorway. The left side has ashlar coping. At the rear, within the outshut, there is a segmental-arched cart-entry and another entry that has been blocked to form a window. The left return of the house has a blocked two-light mullion window in the gable, while the left return of the left outbuilding has external stone steps leading up to a former doorway, which is now a six-pane window, and a blocked doorway on the ground floor with a quoined ashlar surround.

Inside, the sitting room to the left of the door features a decorated plaster cornice with acanthus leaf, egg-and-dart, and paterae motifs, along with fielded panel doors to a cupboard next to the fireplace and a door with six fielded panels. The window shutters have reeded panels. In the former kitchen to the right, there is an ashlar chamfered segmental-arched fireplace with bases, and a modern rear wall that blocks a much deeper cavity, along with stop-chamfered beams. In the early 19th century, the building served as accommodation for boarders at a school built in front of it, with Thomas Waller as the headmaster.