Lodge Cottage

Lodge Cottage is a former longhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the early 18th century and has undergone some alterations over time.

The building is constructed from coursed rubble sandstone and features a pantile roof, with rebuilt brick stacks and a brick outshut. Originally, it was a two-bay house with a cross passage on the north side, but the low end, which served as a byre, was reduced to a single bay around 1950 and is now incorporated into the house. A single-bay brick outshut at the west end of the cross passage may be shown on the 1854 Ordnance Survey map.

The east elevation has three bays and two storeys. The original part of the house features three-light horizontal sliding sash windows. The low end has a two-light sash window on the ground floor and a 20th-century casement window on the first floor. All windows have eight panes and timber lintels. The front door is from the 20th century, and there is an end stack on the left gable and another to the left of the cross passage. The north gable has been rebuilt around 1950, while the south gable displays tumbling-in brickwork at a slightly raised verge. The west elevation has similar windows to the front but features stone voussoirs and keyblocks instead of timber lintels. The outshut is a single storey with a catslide roof.

Inside, the cottage has exposed chamfered beams throughout, and the timber partitioning that forms the internal divisions is still intact. There are boarded doors throughout, with the door to the centre ground floor room hung from iron pins. The hinges on the door to the southern room are of the H-L type. The centre room retains its bressumer beam, and the plastered-over smoke hood is still visible in the bedroom above.

Lodge Cottage is designated as a Grade II building because it is a good example of an 18th-century local vernacular building that retains evidence of its original longhouse form, along with notable interior features such as timber partitions and boarded doors.