Historical buildings report Shelley Lodge retains the frame and part of the collar purlin roof of a C15th cross-wing forming two downstairs and upstairs rooms. It would have been part of an open hall house of which the rest has been lost. There is a C17th inglenook style fireplace which has been highly rebuilt and two storey C17th additions have been built on the east and west sides to increase the room sizes and to add two new rooms. The cottage was expanded around 1800 with outshuts for service rooms and a new staircase. A Bake House was built away from the cottage but close by next to the well. In the late C19th from 1884 to at least 1904 the cottage was used as a Post Office. Between 1904 and 1926 a kitchen with bedroom above was added to the south of the building and by 1970 a small porch was added bringing the front door to the western side. In 1999 a dining room was added connecting the kitchen to the Bake House and providing built in closets upstairs. The Lodge lies at the entrance to Shelley Hall but precedes it by possibly one hundred years. It was the principal building in the Post Medieval village close to the church. Once the Hall was built it was relegated in importance, reduced in size and then remodelled incrementally throughout the years.