Major Lodge

Major Lodge is an earlier 19th century two-storey house with a service wing, constructed from whitewashed roughcast rubble stone and topped with slate roofs. The building is arranged in an L-shape, featuring stone end and ridge stacks on the main house, along with a red brick ridge stack and a west end stack on the service wing, which is now known as Major Lodge.

The main house has an east-facing front with a three-window range of 12-pane sash windows that have slate sills and painted stucco labels, similar to those found on Nos 3 and 4 opposite. The entrance features a fine six-panel door with four fielded panels, panelled reveals, and a plain overlight, topped by a carved scrolled wooden panel. An attractive painted timber pedimental open porch supported by slim bulbous columns includes half-column responds, scrolled brackets at the capitals, and fretted bargeboards on the pediment. The north wall is roughcast, while the rear is constructed from rubble stone and includes a stair projection.

The north front of Major Lodge has a roof that matches the height of the main house and features casement windows with top-lights, which also have similar stucco labels. On the left side, there is a triple casement window on each floor, while the ground floor on the right has a door and a small pair of casement windows, and the first floor has a pair of casement windows with top-lights. The door includes an oval glazed panel and is sheltered by an open pedimental porch supported by two thin iron posts and topped with a slate gable. The door surround is raised in stucco. There is a garage located on the west end wall.

The porch of the main house is part of a group of attractively unorthodox variations on classical architectural styles found in Newport, which includes Victoria Lodge on West Street, Ivy House on East Street, J J Brown premises on Market Street, Carningli on East Street, and Bethlehem Baptist Chapel.