Building record 149/1/1 - Lodge Farmhouse, Roe Park

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56516 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

A farmhouse dated 1654 on re-set date stone. A two storey building built of rendered sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. To the ground floor at right of centre is a plank door with bolt-head decoration, to the right of which is a five-light casement window with chamfered ashlar mullions which may be of eighteenth or nineteenth century date. To the left is a three-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 the attic which also rises at the centre. Both string courses continue around the whole building. The first floor has two three-light windows with chamfered mullions either side of a rectangular date stone. This has the Moreton crest in the centre with a 'B' in the upper right corner and the date 16 54 in the lower corners. To the right hand side at ground floor level is a twentieth century lean-to porch and behind it a nineteenth century wing at ground floor level. The right hand gable-end has a three-light window at first floor level and a two-light twentieth century 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 two-light twentieth century 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 three-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 is a pair of French windows to the ground floor, with a three-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 three lights with chamfered mullions. Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams to the ground floor and an ingle nook fireplace, now blocked and containing a twentieth century fire surround.

<2> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 278/2, 1838 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The tithe map for the township depicts three buildings, the farmhouse, a barn and a small rectangular building to the west of the farmhouse.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ8558, 1873-1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map depicts the farmhouse with a range of smaller buildings or pens adjoining to the immediate west. The barn depicted on the tithe map (see 2) has been extended and the smaller building to the west of the farmhouse has been demolished. All these buildings appear to survive within the modern farm complex.

<4> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.II p.305 (Book). SCH3228.

This is one of a number of place-names associated with the area known as Roe Park.

<5> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

Lodge Farm is depicted on this map.