Building record 1292602000 - Brands Lodge

Associated with Brands House are two Victorian buildings, one the former Lodge, and the other the staff cottages. Both are very attractive in a late Victorian Vernacular style, utilising local flint work. Neither are shown on the 1841 map but are on the 1883 OS plans, and they are likely to date from the later part of the 19th century. Brands Lodge was once a prominent eye-catching building on the corner, but is now hidden by fence and trees, which act as a buffer to the busy road. Flint with brick quoins and a tile roof, it has attractive white painted carved bargeboards. Of particular interest are the window surrounds, of moulded brick with dripmoulds above. The house was extended in the early 1980s with a two-storey side and rear extension, and later by a conservatory. The door bay (originally in the centre) has one of the Rockhall shields above it. A significant building within the Conservation Area of Four Ashes (B2).