The Lodge — Ramelton

Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c. 1820 and extended or rebuilt c. 1850, having single-bay bow window to the west elevation and three-bay extension to rear (north) at the eat corner. Modern extensions and additions to the north. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with wide overhanging eaves, and with ashlar sandstone chimneystacks having decorative terracotta chimneypots over. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with raised rendered(?) block-and-start quoins to the corners of main block. Square-headed window openings with cut sandstone sills, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the main elevation. Three square-headed window openings to the bowed bay to the west elevation having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window opening adjacent to the north having eight-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to the west elevation. Central three-centred arch\shallow segmental-headed door opening to the south elevation having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings; flanking moulded timber pilasters, three-pane sidelights over timber panels, two-pane overlight, and with cut stone threshold. Set back from road in elevated site in own grounds in the rural countryside to the west\north-west of the centre of Ramelton. Formerly detached four-bay two-storey outbuilding to the north-east, now incorporated into house and converted to accommodation, having half-hipped artificial slate roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over, smooth rendered walls, square-headed openings with replacement fittings, and with flight of external cut sandstone steps to east elevation giving access to doorway at first floor level. Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding to the west having pitched natural slate roof, rubble sandstone walls, square-headed window opening with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window\four-pane fixed timber and with two shallow segmental-headed door openings with red brick surrounds and battened timber doors. Detached two-storey gable-fronted outbuilding to the north-west having pitched natural slate roof, smooth rendered walls, square-headed window openings with fixed-pane windows, and square-headed doorways and loading bay timber battened doors. Sections of coursed and randomly coursed rubble sandstone boundary wall to road-frontage to the south. Former walled garden (on sub-rectangular plan) to the south-east having rubble stone walls; integral shallow segmental-headed pedestrian gateway to the north-west corner of walled garden, adjacent to house, having red brick voussoirs, and wrought-iron flat bar gate. Main gateway to the south-west of site having a pair of randomly coursed and squared rubble sandstone gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal cut sandstone capstones over, and with a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates; gateway flanked by quadrant sections of rubble sandstone walling.