Bishopton Lodge

Bishopton Lodge is a mid-18th century building constructed of brown brick with a pyramidal stone slate roof topped by a weather vane. The lodge features two storeys and a wood modillioned eaves cornice. It has three bays, each with sash windows that include glazing bars and chanelled stucco voussoirs. The building is accented by rusticated quoins. On the ground floor, there is a canted low window with a modillioned wooden cornice, and a door with six fielded panels, an oblong fanlight with glazing bars, a moulded surround, and a moulded cornice. There are one-storey extensions to the east and west, each with two bays. The first bay of the extensions has a blocked round-arched carriage entrance with chanelled stucco voussoirs, while the second bay contains a sash window with glazing bars and a semi-circular attic window, both with chanelled stucco voussoirs.

Inside, the lodge features a fine staircase hall with an ornamental plaster ceiling that includes a figure of a putto with a laurel sprig chain, surrounded by Rococo ornamentation at the four corners. The staircase has a closed string, turned balusters, and a spiral curtail. The floor is stone flagged with black marble quarries. The south-east room on the ground floor has a late 18th-century chimneypiece and late 19th-century wainscotting, while the south-west room features a contemporary chimneypiece and a plaster ceiling with egg-and-dart cornices on the beams, along with Rococo ornamentation at the intersections.

Bishopton Lodge was built by William Aislabie of Studley Royal as a steward's house.