The stone lodge has a five-part plan centred on a hexagon with four extensions. One side of the hexagon is extended by a portico. To either side of this entrance is a canted wall with stone-mullioned windows. The fourth and fifth canted sides have rectangular projections to make a bedroom and a staircase. At the end opposite the entrance is a recess for a chimney-piece having a rectangular plan with triangular alcoves at each end.

Drawings 30 and 31 show working drawings for the lodge. Drawing 30 includes a section of the lodge as through the entrance porch and centre of the building. The drawing is unfinished, with only a feint pencil line to indicate the roof. The section and plan show a flat ceiling with a hexagonal opening in the centre for the lantern. The built design, however, has vaulted ceilings in both the portico and centre room.

The walls of the basement are brick and stand 7 feet high. As indicated in drawings 38 and 39, the lodge was built on an incline. The basement has windows and a door leading to the area behinid the building. A pencil addition to the plan on drawing 30 shows a privy attached to the exterior wall.

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