Lower Lodge to Soughton Hall

Lower Lodge to Soughton Hall is a two-storey lodge built in the Tudor-Gothic style, showcasing a distinctive variety of materials and details. The first floor is half-timbered, while the ground floor is constructed from red brick, resting on a rubble plinth. The slate roof features tiled cresting and overhanging eaves, with red brick stacks, one of which is octagonal.

The lodge has stone-framed windows on the ground floor, with leaded quarry glazing. It has an L-shaped plan, with the main range oriented east-west, a northern wing, and a porch at the angle facing north. The open timber porch has a hipped slate roof that extends from the main roof, featuring a timber handrail with decorative work below and a boarded door. To the right of the porch is a low hipped roof over a first-floor two-light casement window. The main roof continues to the right over a two-light ground floor window with plain glazing, while a small two-light window is set down to the left.

The east gable end displays close-studded timbering on the first floor, with pargetting on a Gothic-carved jetty bressumer that features inscribed floral ornamentation. At the apex, there is a finial with a 'B' (Bankes) monogram above an imitation hammerbeam roof truss. The gable contains a three-light casement window. Centrally located on the ground floor is a three-light window with round-headed lights and colonnettes. The ground floor also features splayed angles with single round-headed lights, large keystones, and stained glass. A freestone band connects the east window with these corner windows.

The first floor's close-studding wraps around the south side, also adorned with pargetting, extending to a central stepped chimney breast that has ribbed ornamentation on the stack. To the left of the stack, the roof continues over a two-light ground floor window, which also has round-headed lights and a colonnette. The rear of the lodge has simple windows and a central boarded door, with a low brick-walled yard that includes a privy at one corner.

Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection.