Squash Court

This is a squash court building, constructed around 1950, along with a picturesque shooting lodge dating to circa 1872, with later additions and alterations. The lodge is a two-story, U-plan building resembling a shooting lodge and is situated within a landscaped setting.

The architectural style is picturesque, with very decorative pierced bargeboarding to the gables and first-floor dormers, and deep bracketed eaves. The exterior is a painted roughcast harl with painted red sandstone margins. The lodge features a base course, sandstone window margins with slightly projecting cills, sandstone quoin strips, and regular fenestration, with bargeboarded dormers slightly breaking the eaves on most elevations.

The main, south-facing elevation has slightly advanced two-bay gables flanking a three-bay central section, with a bargeboarded porch at the centre. A round-arched doorway has been blocked and replaced with a small window. The east-facing entrance range has a lower, early 20th-century addition to the outer right. A broad bargeboarded porch features a two-step approach to a round-arched entrance, timber-boarded panelling to the dado, and timber benches. The front door is within a plain margined architrave, with a blocked rectangular fanlight above. The west-facing garden elevation has a later single-story addition to the outer left, and a piend-roofed canted bay window at ground level to the right. The north-facing service courtyard has an irregularly fenestrated long range to the east and a shorter range to the west, featuring timber-boarded back doors and some rooflights.

The building uses predominantly small-pane glazing in Crittal windows. The stacks are smartly rendered with sandstone cornices and quoin strips, some featuring yellow clay cans. The roof is covered in graded grey Scottish slate, with cast-iron rainwater goods and decorative hoppers.

Inside the lodge, a curved timber staircase is notable for its barley-twist cast-iron balusters and decorative newel. Decorative cornicing is found in the principal rooms, while the bedrooms have plainer cornicing.

The squash court itself is a two-story, four-bay rectangular building with a gabled roof and deep bracketed eaves. It has a Venetian window to the east gable and is constructed of roughcast-rendered brick with bays divided by pilaster strips, which may be part of a steel frame. A timber-boarded entrance door is sheltered by a small canopy. The roof is of Welsh slate with skylights. The interior includes an entrance lobby with a cast-iron spiral staircase leading to a balcony above. The squash court has narrow timber floorboards and a steel-trussed roof.

To the west of the squash court is a small gabled brick outbuilding, likely a stable, with a Welsh slate roof.