Lodgepark House — LODGE DEMESNE EAST

Detached five-bay two-storey Classical-style country house, c.1825, on an L-shaped plan possibly over basement incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1743, on site with single-bay two-storey breakfront having (single-storey) prostyle tetrastyle Tuscan portico to ground floor, and five-bay two-storey lower return to north-west. Part refenestrated. Hipped slate roof behind parapet (hipped to return) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limestone ashlar eaves having iron brackets (on rendered eaves to return). Unpainted roughcast walls with unpainted rendered plinth having cut-limestone chamfered course, cut-limestone quoins to corners, and cut-limestone band to eaves supporting moulded cornice having blocking course over to parapet (stepped to breakfront having rectangular recessed central panel). Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, six-over-six (ground floor) and three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows (glazed timber double doors to first floor breakfront having fixed-pane sidelights) having some replacement uPVC casement windows throughout. Square-headed openings in tripartite arrangement under cut-limestone prostyle tetrastyle Tuscan portico on four cut-limestone steps (having columns with responsive pilasters supporting frieze, cornice having modillions, and tooled blocking course having wrought iron railings to parapet) with carved cut-limestone doorcase, timber panelled door having overlight, and fixed-pane timber sidelights on cut-limestone sills. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt.