Lodge Farmhouse

Lodge Farmhouse is a farmhouse that may have originally served as an ecclesiastical residence. It dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th century and the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of random rubble Lias stone with Ham stone dressings and features a slate roof with coped verges and kneelers. There is a large external 19th-century stack with an octagonal chimney on the left side of the porch, as well as another external stack on the left and right gable ends and the center right.

The layout includes an open hall with a solar over the service end, now arranged as a three-cell structure with a cross passage and a full-height porch. The farmhouse is one and a half storeys tall, with a gable-fronted end bay on the left, a gabled full-height porch, and two gabled dormers on the right. The left side features a Perpendicular-style cinquefoil-headed two-light mullioned and transomed window, while the porch has a trefoil-headed two-light window, both with cavetto-moulded mullions. On the right side, there are 19th-century stone mullions, and the ground floor has a 19th-century four-light square-headed mullioned and transomed window on the left, along with moulded four-centred arch openings to the porch and two bays on the right, which are filled with 19th-century three-light casements and an entrance with a square-headed door and a light above.

Inside, the farmhouse has been altered in the mid-19th century but is said to contain the original 15th-century smoke-blackened wagon roof, which consists of 31 trusses set less than 250 meters apart, with every fifth truss being chamfered. This roof is reputed to be the only known smoke-blackened wagon roof in Somerset. It is believed that the building was connected to the Preceptory and Priory of Buckland, which was located at Lower Durston and dissolved during the Reformation.