Lodge Hill House

Lodge Hill House is a small country house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of ashlar, with a double-span slate and concrete tile roof and late 19th-century brick stacks. The house is a symmetrical Regency villa, with two storeys and three bays. It has 12-pane sash windows on the ground floor, and 9-pane sash windows on the first floor. The ground floor windows are set within shallow segmental arched recesses, originally fitted with a rail for horizontally sliding louvred shutters, which are now missing. A sill band runs along the first floor, and a moulded cornice sits above, terminating in a parapet with coping. The central entrance features a six-panel door, with the top four panels glazed, set within a stone doorcase featuring a pedimented entablature supported by two engaged Tuscan columns.

Inside, the front rooms have moulded plaster cornices decorated with acanthus and running vine motifs. The left-hand room has an elliptically arched alcove with a reeded architrave, and a 20th-century chimney piece. The right-hand room has a Victorian chimney piece. A segmental hall arch, with an ornate architrave, leads to an open-well staircase at the rear. The staircase has a cut string, shaped tread ends, stick balusters, and a moulded mahogany hand rail wreathed over column newels. A rear left room contains a larger stone kitchen fireplace. Plaster cornices are also present on the first floor. Most of the original joinery remains, including panelled window shutters and panelled doors, although the original chimney pieces have been removed.