Greenfield Lodge, Lasswade

Greenfield Lodge, Lasswade

Greenfield Lodge is a late 18th-century house with 19th-century additions, resulting in a complex plan. The building is two storeys with six bays, grouped 2-4. The original core is a four-bay rectangular-plan structure with a two-bay bow to the centre front, extended by a two-bay addition to the right (south), a rear (west) wing addition, and a single-storey projection to the northwest.

The house is harled with ashlar sandstone dressings and an ashlar porch. The bowed bay features a base course, and windows throughout have raised cills. A three-light canted bay window to the outer left has a string course and blocking course above it. A balustrade with cornice sits above a later single-storey bridging entrance porch positioned between the bowed bay and the southern addition. A further balustrade with cornice sits above the angle to the right of the southern addition. The southern addition has an eaves course.

The principal (east) elevation features a raised, architraved, consoled and pedimented doorpiece at ground level in the central bay, now fitted with a deep-set part-glazed modern door. A balustrade stands above, with a blinded window set back at first-floor level. The advanced two-bay full-height bow to the right of centre originally occupied the centre position and contains windows at each floor in each bay. A doorway, now blocked, sits at ground level in the bay to the outer right, with a blinded window at first-floor level above. The bay to the left of centre has windows at ground and first-floor levels, with a balustrade continuing around the angle above. A three-light canted window at ground level in the slightly advanced bay to the outer left is paired with a bipartite window above.

The rear (west) elevation is complex, incorporating various additions at different angles. It is six bays in an irregular 1-2-1-2 grouping. The original rear central two bays, to the left of centre, have a part-glazed modern door at ground level approached by stairs in the left bay, and windows at first-floor level above each bay. A single-storey addition projecting west to the outer left has a boarded door to the right with a flanking small window, and a second boarded door set close to the re-entrant angle in the left return. A single-bay two-storey projection to the west, to the right of centre, has a single window set to the left at first-floor level. The three-bay right return features a glazed door at ground level in the central bay with a window at first-floor level above, and flanking first-floor windows in the outer bays. The two-bay left return has a boarded door with a flanking window to the left and a window set close above. A two-storey two-bay addition projecting south to the outer left has a bipartite stair window set close to the re-entrant angle in the left bay and a large picture window set high in the right bay. The two-bay right return wall has a French window at ground level in the left bay and windows at each floor in the right bay.

The north (side) elevation is two storeys with a single bay, alongside a single-storey single-bay addition to the right (west). The left bay has windows at each floor, and the addition has a single window.

The roof is grey slate with a piended pitch; slate covers the additions. Ashlar coped wallhead stacks stand at the south and centre. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present, with some uPVC replacements to the west elevation. The glazing throughout varies and includes 12- and 18-pane timber sash-and-case windows, four-pane fixed lights, and lying-pane windows to the bowed bay.

A square-plan outbuilding to the northeast of the house is harled with a piended slate roof and a two-leaf boarded door.

The gatepiers are square-plan in ashlar sandstone with cornice and square cap. Wrought-iron gates hang between them.

Despite numerous alterations, the core of the house remains relatively intact. The garden contains a three-roomed air raid shelter with entrance and emergency exit. The house appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854.