Scheduled Ancient Monument: MILDENHALL WARREN LODGE, OLD KEEPER'S LODGE W OF HIGH LODGE FARM (8962)

"Flint building about 25 feet square, 2 stories. Fireplace on first floor with chamfered and stopped stone lintel. Doorway on ground floor with segmental head with stopped chamfer on it. Window above with segmental head on inside and square on outside. Another blocked rectangular window. Quoins and all original dressings in stone. Inhabited until the war, but since roof has been removed (c.1950) and a passage and outbuilding pulled down (1980s). It appears to be a 14th century gamekeeper's lodge rather like that at Thetford Warren" Materials: The lodge is built from a flint rubble core with knapped flint facing, some brick, and some dressed limestone. The ruinous east range is built from clunch. The well to the west is brick-lined. The roof is built from C21 timber and slate. Plan: The lodge is a standing building approximately seven metres square and two storeys. The walls are approximately one metre thick. Attached at the east side are the ruinous foundations of a former extension in clunch. To the west is a brick-lined well, approximately 20 metres in depth. Description: The walls of the lodge have a flint rubble-core with a knapped flint facing. There are limestone ashlar quoins. The north elevation has an arched doorway with brick dressings, and the upper storey contains a small window opening with stone and brick dressings. To the right of it is a larger, later, blocked window with brick dressings and flint rubble infill. There is some surviving external render, containing animal hair, at ground floor level. There is a course of projecting stone with a flint rubble infilled area which may represent the position of a former lean-to extension. The west elevation contains a blocked door and blocked small window in a very similar position to the north wall. There is no render on the west elevation. The south elevation contains a blocked arched doorway, and at the first-floor level are two blocked, large rectangular windows. Between these windows are the visible remains of a small early window with brick dressings, infilled with flint rubble. The east elevation has no openings. There is an area of rebuilding in red brick, and some render to part of the ground floor. There is an early-C21 pyramidal timber roof structure with plain tiles. Internally, the first floor has been lost, leaving the internal space open. There are remains of a staircase on the inside of the north elevation, a first floor fireplace on the inner east wall and an early-C20 cooking range on the ground floor in the south west corner. Attached to the east end are the foundations of a former extension, built from clunch, and only surviving to a height of about 50cm at the time of survey (March 2023). There are remains of a sink and a drainage channel, and remains of brick flooring. Internally the lodge has a pamment floor and contains a late-C19 stove with a brick surround.