Lodge Farm

Lodge Farm is a building with a roughly cruciform plan made up of four asymmetrical ranges, dating from an unspecified period. The southern and western ranges are particularly prominent, with a small porch featuring a hipped roof located at the angle between them. The building is one storey high and is timber-framed on a red brick plinth, topped with a red tiled roof. There are two red brick axial stacks, one on the northern range and one on the southern range.

The timber framing is of very high quality, consisting of two rows of panels up to the eaves level. The southern and western gables slightly jet out, with cambered gable bressumers. The corner posts are slightly jowled to support the projecting verges, which have moulded barge boards. The timbering on the southern gable features two rows of close studding, while the western gable has panels with struts arranged in a herring-bone pattern. The northern and eastern gables were not visible during the inspection.

The lodge features Tudor-style wooden windows with transoms and mullions, containing leaded lights with square quarries. Each of the southern and western gables has a six-light window, with the top row of lights in the southern window extending across the gable and wrapping around the southwest corner, connecting to a large four-light window on the western side. The porch has a southern doorway with a modern panelled door, and on its western side, the top tier of panels is recessed behind a row of decorated balusters. The western side of the lodge appears to have been designed as the front, facing approaching visitors, as indicated by the herring-bone design on the western gable and the balusters on the western side of the porch. The window wrapping around the southwest angle of the southern gable would have provided the lodge keeper with an excellent view.

No access was available at the time of inspection in August 1996.