Merton Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villa. 2 related planning applications.

Merton Lodge

WRENN ID
deep-corridor-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
Villa
Address
Merton Lodge, Middle Lincombe Road, TQ1 2NE
OS grid reference
SX 926 633
Coordinates
50.46032, -3.51406
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Merton Lodge is a villa, subdivided, built around the 1850s. It has a stuccoed exterior with a slate roof and stacks featuring rendered shafts, some topped with embattled caps. The building has a double-depth rectangular plan, with the entrance located on the west side and a service block to the north.

The villa is two storeys high and features a roof with a coped parapet. The windows have ovolo-moulded frames, moulded mullions, and hoodmoulds. The front is asymmetrical with two windows, and a gabled section in the center. There is a projecting canted porch bay at the center, with a parapet that has sunk panels. The front door is a 20th-century half-glazed design with a plain overlight, flanked by tall one-light fixed windows and 2-light windows on the left and right sides. There are two first-floor windows and one ground-floor window, with a shallow projecting chimney stack in the right-hand bay.

The 1975 listing description mentions mullion and transom windows on the garden-facing south front, which run the full length of the ground floor, and a crenellated service wing. The interior has not been inspected but may contain features of interest.

Local climate

Merton Lodge receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 10 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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