Listed Building: LODGE FARMHOUSE (1330037)

MORETON CUM ALCUMLOW C.P. ROE PARK SJ 85 NE 8/46 Lodge Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Dated 1654 on re-set datestone. Rendered sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Two storeys with attic. Entrance front: two bays near-symmetrically disposed. To the ground floor at right of centre is a plank door with bolt-head decoration, to right of which is a five-light casement window with chamfered ashlar mullions which may be of C18 or C19 date and have been painted. To left is a 3-light window with similar mullions. Between the floors is a painted string course which rises over the doorway and there is a similar string course between the first floor and attic which also rises at the centre. Both string courses continue around the whole building. To the first floor at right and left are 3-light windows with chamfered mullions and to the centre is a rectangular datestone which bears the Moreton crest to its centre, the initial 'B' at upper right and the date 16 54 to the lower corners. To the right hand side at ground floor level is a C20 lean-to porch and behind it a C19 wing at ground floor level. The right hand gable-end has a 3-light window at first floor level and a 2-light C20 window to the attic. The left hand gable-end has, at ground floor level, a window of 2 and 3 lights divided by a king mullion. To the gable is a 2-light C20 window. To the rear is a central projecting gabled wing which may originally have formed a porch wing. This has at ground floor level a 3-light casement window with chamfered mullions and a similar window at first floor level with a single-light window to the attic. To the sides at ground floor level are blocked openings which may originally have been doorways. To the right of this are a pair of French windows to the ground floor, with a 3-light mullioned window at first floor level and a single light window to the attic at left. To the left is a ground floor window of 3 lights with chamfered mullions. Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams to the ground floor and an ingle nook fireplace, now blocked and containing a C20 fire surround. Listing NGR: SJ8586258642