Cumry Lodge

The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, built c.1820, having gablet over entrance bay dormer window to front (north) elevation, with two-bay two-storey return to rear elevation, with full-width single-storey lean-to addition to south gable of this.

The saved account records: Pitched tiled roofs, red brick chimneystacks, and paired timber corbels to eaves.

The saved account records: Roughcast rendered walls with tooled stone quoins.

The saved account records: Yard to rear comprising multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to south range, single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west corner, and two-storey multiple-bay outbuilding to east range, with pitched corrugated metal roofs, whitewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed, round-headed, and camber-headed openings with some timber battened fittings and some double-leaf timber battened doors.

Cumry Lodge matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This modest house is distinctive for its dormered form. The gablet and paired eaves corbels and chimneystacks give the building a strong symmetry. The fine doorcase adds a decorative focus, and the accompanying outbuildings provide context and are good-quality heritage structures themselves. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.