Lodge Farmhouse (EHER 34544)

A house with an early 19th century front range and 15th to 16th century rear range. It has a red brick front range and other extensions and alterations

A house with an early 19th century front range and 15th to 16th century rear range. It has a red brick front range and other extensions and alterations. There is plaster to the rear timber framed range and red plain tiled roofs. It has an end left chimney stack to the front range and rear left and right stacks to rear range. The house is two storeys. The front range has dentilled eaves cornice and three window range of tripartite small paned vertically sliding sashes, gauged brick arches excepting first floor central round headed single light. The rear left range roof is hipped and sprocketted to the left with gablet. The right range has a single range of vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars. The early 19th century front range has a stick baluster staircase with wreathed handrail. The 15th to 16th century rear range has end chimney stacks, that to ground floor left is 16th century with a repaired inglenook and first floor chamfered brick fireplace, pointed segmental head, semi-circular back. There is a inglenook fireplace to the ground floor right stack. There is a complete roof structure with simple two armed crown posts. <1> Farmed by Benjamine Southgate in partnership with Benjamine Day 1796. F.H. Erith "Ardleigh in 1796", 1978. <1> Photographs <2>