Cliffe Park Lodge - Rudyard, Nr Leek, Staffordshire Moorlands, England,UK.
N 53° 07.928 W 002° 05.022
30U E 561304 N 5887361
Cliffe Park Lodge is located on Reacliffe Road in Rudyard.
Waymark Code: WMWR2P
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/05/2017
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Cliffe Park Lodge is located opposite the Sailing Club at Rudyard lake on Reacliffe Road and is a Grade II Listed Building.
Cliffe Park Hall was built in a Gothic style in 1811 for John Haworth at an estimated cost of £25,000. The Lodge was built in the same style in about 1850 as the lodge for Cliffe Park Hall.
It is describe by British Listed Buildings as follows;
"Lodge, and flanking walls. Early C19. Coursed stone; flat roof
invisible behind crenellated parapet; side stacks. 2 storey,
3-bay front divided by giant piers, taken up as turrets and crenellated,
raised crenellations to centre bay; 2 ranges of labelled casements,
shorter to first floor; quatrefoil surround to up-turned shield-shaped
centre light set over string and corbelled hood to C20 door. Approximately
3.5m high and 7m long flanking walls to both sides, crenellated as Lodge." Source: (
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Staffordshire Past Track shows a photograph of the building 1920 - 1930's. (
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It was used as the clubhouse for Rudyard Lake Sailing Club between 1958 and 1963.
It is currently (2017) unoccupied and derelict.