Herbert's Lodge

Herbert's Lodge is an asymmetrical, two-story house constructed of snecked rock-faced limestone with slate roofs and polychrome brick stacks. Built around a mid-19th century core, the house was extensively remodelled in 1885, adding a higher gabled east wing and an entrance bay on the north side, resulting in an L-shaped plan. A further west wing was added in 1928. The windows are primarily sashes with margin glazing, set under slightly cambered heads with stone sills.

The north-facing entrance front features a flat-roofed, three-window bay with timber framing to its upper storey. The main doorway is recessed in a chamfered northeast angle, with double-panelled doors and an overlight. Further east is a single sash window on each floor. The north wall of the original house has three windows, with a late 20th-century half-glazed door offset to the right. A steeply pitched roof dormer with a two-light casement window is also present. The north wall of the east wing has a mock corbelled first-floor stack.

The east gable of the east wing originally featured a polygonal conservatory (replaced after the 1941 Blitz). Above the conservatory, the wall is rendered, above a moulded corbel table, with a single window. The gable is timber-framed and the eaves project on moulded brackets.

The south garden front, dating from 1885, is dominated by a large polygonal bay to the left, incorporating French doors and windows on each face. The upper storey of this section is rendered, replacing timber framing. To the right of the polygonal bay are two pairs of French doors leading to a veranda supported on wooden columns with glazing above and under a slate roof, which extends around the east gable end to the conservatory. To the right of the bay is a plain sash window and a large oriel window on the upper floor.

A section of the original house remains on the left side of the polygonal bay, beyond which a long, three-window west wing was added in 1928 under a hipped slate roof. This wing has late 20th-century windows and a polygonal end with sash windows. The north side of the west wing joins the southwest angle of the original house, which contains a flat-roofed, one- and two-story entrance bay with wide double panelled doors flanked by small windows.

The west side of the original house is not refaced with the snecked stone, and features 20th-century details, including a two-story staircase projection to the left. Two original attic dormers with two-light casement windows have been retained.

Within the kitchen, remains of a 16th-century hunting lodge are incorporated, notably a narrowed stone fireplace with a timber lintel set into the north wall.