Ramelton Old Masonic Lodge — Meetinghouse Lane

Detached three-bay two-storey Masonic lodge\hall with attic storey, built c. 1820 and altered c. 1860, having single-storey outbuilding attached to the north gable end. Possibly originally a dwelling later converted for use as a Masonic lodge\hall. Pitched natural slate roof with blue-black clay ridge tiles, three slate-hung chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one offset to the south side of centre), roughcast rendered corbelled eaves course to, decorative wavy timber bargeboards to gable ends (north and south), and surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods (replacement to rear).. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth (to front). Cut stone plaque (on rectangular-plan) over central doorway to front elevation having Masonic square and divider motifs. Square-headed window openings having smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to the gable ends at attic level having fixed-pane timber windows. Central segmental-headed doorway to the front elevation (west) having smooth rendered reveals, plinth blocks, replacement timber panelled door, and with plain overlight. Rear elevation altered having square-headed doorways with replacement timber doors accessed by flights of cement rendered steps. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the north gable end having mono-pitched natural slate roof, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls over smooth rendered plinth course (exposed to the rear and to the north elevation), square-headed window openings to the east elevation (now boarded), square-headed doorway to the east elevation with battened timber door, and square-headed doorway to the north gable end having reused timber panelled door with bolection mouldings. Set back from road in sunken site to the south\south-east of the centre of Ramelton. Gravelled area to the front of site (west) and field to the rear (east). Rubble stone boundary wall (on curvilinear-plan) to the road-fronted to the east. Pedestrian gateway to the west comprising a pair of rendered squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over, and with hooped wrought-iron gate with cast-iron fleur-de-lys finials; flight of cement rendered steps with flanking wrought-iron guards leading from gateway to doorway.