Tixall Bottle Lodge, a curious octagonal lodge in ashlar stone with an ogee stone vaulted roof near to Stafford, England UK

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This is a curious octagonal lodge in ashlar stone with an ogee stone vaulted roof. There is a central stone chimney, moulded stone eves, mullioned windows and a cambered stone doorway. The building stands at the roadside opposite Tixall Farm, at the Tixall end of the bridleway connecting Tixall to Great Haywood, where the Astons and Cliffords held further land and property. Bottle Lodge was previously known as the Upper Lodge, with the Lower or White Lodge, at the Haywood Mill end of the Bridleway. The chimney was straightened when the building was restored a few years ago for use as rented accommodation, with single rooms upstairs and downstairs. In the 19th century it was used to house the local shepherd with his children sleeping in the farmbuildings on the other side of the road.

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