Brown Down Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Brown Down Lodge
- WRENN ID
- vacant-porch-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brown Down Lodge, Yarcombe, TA20 3QW
- OS grid reference
- ST 240 123
- Coordinates
- 50.90543, -3.08204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brown Down Lodge is a cottage, likely originally built as an estate keeper's or forester's cottage, dating from the early 19th century, with service extensions added around 1970. The building is constructed from local stone rubble, some of which is whitewashed, and features a stone rubble stack with a 19th-century brick chimney shaft, topped with a thatch roof.
The cottage has a small square plan, facing northeast towards the road, and is arranged with two rooms wide and two rooms deep, featuring a central rear lateral stack. There are doorways on the front and the right (northwest) side. It stands two storeys tall, with 20th-century service extensions to the rear and right side. The design is in the Gothick style.
The exterior showcases a symmetrical two-window front with original arch-headed windows that have Y-tracery and rectangular panes of leaded glass. The first-floor windows extend into the eaves. The central doorway features a two-centred arch head and contains a studded plank door. The roof is tall, steeply pitched, and hipped at both ends. The left (southeast) side has a two-window front with arch-headed windows similar to those on the front. On the right (northwest) side, there is a porch with a two-centred arch doorway, which is sheltered by a verandah supported by rustic timber posts. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Brown Down Lodge receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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