Middle Lodge and detached outbuilding

Middle Lodge and its detached outbuilding were built around 1895 as a gate lodge for Hestercombe Park, commissioned by Hon. E.W.B. Portman. Constructed in sandstone with limestone dressings and timber sash windows, the roof is tiled with cast iron rainwater goods.

The lodge follows a T-plan and is two stories high, including a central staircase. It is built in the Domestic Revival style, featuring gables with coped verges and kneelers, quoins, and mullioned openings with eared architraves, fitted with horned sashes. The steeply pitched roof has two chimneystacks and decorative ridge tiles. A canted stone bay with a tiled roof is on the west front. A timber front door with an overlight is set within a projecting porch, supported by a low wall and short column. An iron operating mechanism, formerly used to open the park gate, is fixed to the porch wall and the ground to its south. The rear elevation includes a mullioned opening to the left of a central timber kitchen door, with cast-iron pipes on either side of the door providing water to the first-floor bathroom.

The principal ground floor rooms contain cast-iron fireplaces with decorative tiling, one having a stone chimneypiece. Wood block floors and late-19th century doors are present throughout. The staircase features stick balusters and turned newels; at the half-landing, a timber-lined wall and bulkhead extend into a first-floor room, now a bathroom. Three first-floor rooms also have cast-iron fireplaces. Some pine floorboards on the first floor have been replaced.

The detached outbuilding to the east includes a wash house. It is rectangular, constructed of sandstone with matching dressings, though the interior is brick-lined with brick floors. A wide central opening on the façade has a timber plank wall and a timber plank door to the left, leading into the main wash house, with a partitioned privy to its left. The south end serves as a workshop, with a separate plank door and a sash window to the end bay. The rear elevation has an opening to the right.