Cardew Lodge

It is a Grade II listed building.

[1] The house was built as a hunting lodge for Major-General William Henry Lowther following his retirement from the Bengal Army[2] in the late 1870s.

[1] The house has "single-storey gabled wings reminiscent of an Indian bungalow, which he stuffed with mementos of his time in Bengal, including the skin of a crocodile shot after it had eaten a man, and he planted rhododendrons and azaleas in his garden.

"[3] The house was acquired by C. J. Ferguson, an architect, who designed and commissioned additions in 1889.

[4] It became the retirement home of Barbara Dunn, the first British licensed radio operator, after the Second World War[5] and then became the home of the Mallinson family in 1980.