Vale Lodge

Vale Lodge is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is part of the estate village of Sir William Amcotts Ingilby. The building is constructed from coursed squared gritstone and features a grey slate roof. It stands two storeys high and has a three-by-two bay layout, designed in the Gothick style.

The structure has a plinth and a central four-panel door, with the upper two panels featuring trefoil heads. The door has interlaced glazing bars in the pointed overlight and a pointed-arched head with a double chamfer decorated with flower-heads in relief. The chamfers terminate in shields with star motifs at the impost level. All windows are pointed sashes with interlaced glazing bars, and the arches are made of two pieces with a star in relief at the impost level, similar to the doorway. Each opening is topped with a square hoodmould. The eaves cornice is moulded, and there is a shallow blocking course. The hipped roof is adorned with four octagonal-flue corniced end stacks.

Sir William's father, Sir John, who died in 1815, was responsible for the rebuilding of the castle and coach-house ranges. Sir William incorporated flower motifs, the Ingilby star, two-piece lintels, and window forms from the gatehouse pedestrian entrance and the windows of the north coach-house range of the Castle courtyard into the designs for several houses in the village. Castle Close is identical, while Birchwood farmhouse and Horngarth differ only in chimney positions, and Star House was built to the same design.