Lodge Park

Lodge Park is a country house with painted stucco walls, constructed over three levels including a semi-basement. The building features three hipped slate parallel roofs with two rendered chimney stacks on the ridge of the middle roof; the taller stack to the right has three linked diagonal shafts. The eaves are moulded and bracketed. The main front elevation displays a three-window range across two storeys. The upper floor has 12-pane hornless sash windows with 19th-century moulded surrounds. The ground floor features a large 19th-century porch with similar sashes without surrounds on either side, and the basement has short 8-pane sashes.

The porch is a substantial structure reached by eight slate steps. It has a flat roof and rendered stucco construction, with four pilasters, an entablature and cornice broken forward over the outer pilasters, and a plain parapet with outer piers. The pilasters carry triple rosettes in their capitals and flank narrow plate glass sidelights and a broad centre doorway with 20th-century glazed doors and overlight. The sides of the building have angle pilasters and single arched moulded windows.

The broad left side is covered by a triple hipped roof and features two widely-spaced plate glass sashes on the upper floor. Below these sit two large canted oriel windows with 4-12-4-pane hornless sashes and hipped slate roofs. The bases of these oriels are canted inward over square 12-pane fixed windows serving the basement.

A Victorian wing added to the right is set back from the main range and has a slate hipped roof with deep eaves. It contains a two-storey canted oriel with 4-12-4-pane hornless sash windows and a moulded cornice at eaves level. The basement of this wing has two 12-pane hornless sashes. The right side features two bay windows of similar design, with a 12-pane cellar window.

The rear elevation shows a 16-pane hornless stair light at first floor centre set higher than 12-pane sashes on either side, and another 12-pane sash set slightly lower to the left. The ground floor is largely obscured by a flat-roofed 20th-century extension surrounding an earlier two-storey projection with flat roof and a 9-pane hornless sash window with brick voussoirs.

A 19th-century wing projects to the left with an unusually overhanging first floor chamfered beneath. It has a lean-to slate roofed basement entrance with aligned 16-pane hornless sashes to each upper floor.

Interior

The basement and two upper storeys are served by chimneys located in a centre spine wall. Most interior detail dates to the early to mid 19th century. The plan centre on a passage with a stair to the rear. A half-glazed front door opens into a wide entrance passage with one room off to the right and two off to the left. The front rooms have early to mid 19th-century moulded cornices, some with egg and dart pattern. The slate fire surrounds are more ornate in the left room, featuring acanthus leaf capitals. Window reveals are panelled and doors are six-panel. A dog-leg staircase has square section thick balusters, a ramped rail and closed moulded string. The rear left room currently functions as the kitchen, with wide floorboards.

A six-panel door on the landing between ground and first floors leads to a toilet with moulded frame and panelled reveals. The first floor landing has four six-panel doors leading to bedrooms, with wide deal floorboards throughout.

A corridor to the left of the stairs leads to the mid 19th-century wing. At the end of this corridor is a large bedroom with moulded surrounds to the sash bay windows and a corner cupboard with large wooden nearly square pegs. A four-panel door with broad moulded surround opens onto this room.

The basement contains small rooms to the rear and a large kitchen to the front with flagstone flooring and two large fireplaces, one within an arched niche. The corner fireplace includes a bread oven. The basement features large 12 by 12-inch rough-hewn chamfered beams, probably of 17th-century date. The walls are approximately six feet thick, with parts reportedly constructed of earth.

A flat in the cellar beneath the 19th-century wing is thought to have formerly been a washroom, complete with a sluice hole and chimney. This space has slate flags and steps. The rear room now serves as a kitchen. The front room retains only inner leaves of shutters and has a simple square chimney breast, a moulded cornice, and a four-panel door whose moulded surround continues around a corner onto an adjacent wall.

Roof Structure

The outer trusses of the triple hipped roof are of kingpost type, flanking a central roof of collar beam trusses. The heavy, pegged and strapped oak king posts are of classic 18th-century type. There are four trusses to each roof. The king posts are lightly chamfered and include some reused smoke-blackened timbers. The roof trusses in the servants' wing are inscribed with the date 1854.