Clifton Lodge, Clifton Park

Clifton Lodge, situated within Clifton Park, dates from 1880 with subsequent additions and alterations. The building is constructed in an asymmetrical Old English style, incorporating half-timbering. It is principally two storeys high, with a single-storey section and an attic. A near T-plan former gate lodge is present, featuring a glazed verandah in the re-entrant angle to the southwest; a single-storey, flat-roofed addition extends from the rear.

The exterior is of squared and snecked whinstone, with droved cream sandstone dressings, whitewashed harl, and half-timbering to the gableheads. A polished sandstone base course is visible, along with an architraved string and cill course. The eaves overhang, supported by brackets in places, and feature boarded timber, timber bargeboards, and tapering timber finials. Sandstone quoins are present, along with long and short sandstone surrounds to chamfered openings, sandstone mullions and transoms, and chamfered cills.

The west (entrance) elevation features a two-storey, gabled wing advanced to the left, with four-light canted windows on both floors, topped with a timber finial. A boarded timber door is recessed to the right, with an attic light above. A three-bay verandah fronts the elevation, glazed in two bays to the left, with regularly-spaced balustered timber uprights; a gabled bay is positioned to the outer right, surmounted by a timber finial.

On the east (rear) elevation, a corniced sandstone panel is set into the ground-floor bay to the outer right, inscribed with “RHE 1880”. A bipartite window is situated beneath the apex of the first floor, with a timber finial above. A single-storey, flat-roofed addition is offset to the left of centre. A single window sits beneath the apex of the first floor in a gabled bay to the outer left, with a timber finial above.

The north (side) elevation displays a projecting two-storey gabled bay offset to the right of centre, with a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window on the first floor, topped with a timber finial. A single window is recessed in the ground floor bay to the outer left, while a blind bay is recessed to the outer right.

The south (side) elevation incorporates a projecting single-storey gabled bay at centre, with a bipartite window at ground level, surmounted by a timber finial. Single-storey, flat-roofed additions are recessed to the outer right, while a gabled verandah is recessed to the outer left.

The interior was not inspected in 1997. Primarily, the building features eight-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with more modern glazing to the later additions. The roof is covered in graded grey slate with terracotta ridge tiling. Cast-iron rainwater goods are in place. Corniced red brick ridge stacks are visible, along with various circular cans.

Entrance walls, piers, gate piers, and boundary walls flank the entrance. Low, squared and snecked whinstone rubble quadrant walls have ashlar coping. Corniced square-plan sandstone ashlar piers are positioned to the outer left and right, with shallow tiered caps. Corniced octagonal-plan, paired gate piers flank the vehicular and pedestrian entrances, also with shallow tiered caps and timber gates. A rubble-coped low whinstone wall encloses the site to the northeast.