Building record 1287700000 - LODGE FARMHOUSE

Grade II+. House. C17. Flint with narrow brick dressings. Old tile roof, gables with moulded brick copings and kneelers. External chimneys of narrow brick with off-set heads, that to right with attached shafts, that to rear of left bay with single shaft. L-plan. Main range of 2 storeys and attic and 2 bays, small rear wing of one storey with cellar and part of staircase. Chamfered plinth. S. front has barred wooden casements, renewed C20, in chamfered brick surrounds with Tudor hoodmoulds. Ground floor and first floor have cross windows, those to first floor with sills lowered C20, formerly shorter 2-light windows. 2-light attic windows in tall gables. Stone sundial to left. C18 brick extension of one storey and an attic to right, with wide board door and 2-light barred wooden casements. Rear has 2 attic gables, and projecting wing to left with similar gable, single lights, and wide door in right side. Right bay has chimney, blocked ground floor window, and cross window to first floor. Interior: large fireplace with 4-centred chamfered arch in ground floor right room, smaller fireplace with similar arch in left room; partition walls with substantial timbering; stop-chamfered spine beams; old board doors; winder stair. House occupies imposing position on spur of hill above village. Pugin is said to have been very impressed by the building and to have made careful studies of it. RCHM I p. 256 Mon.8. (B1).
NT 150761. National Trust Archaeological Survey (B2).
English Heritage survey of buildings at Lodge Farm carried out in 2000. Sampling of timber frames of the clunch-built barn and the stables for dendrochronology producing mid-late 16th century felling dates, suggesting that the house was added in the 17th century to an existing manorial farm (B3).
The timbers from the house were all too fast-grown to be worth sampling for dendrochronology (B4).
Buildings report dated May - Jun 2000 held at NMR (B5).