Lower Bridge Road Owl's Castle is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1967. House. 4 related planning applications.
Lower Bridge Road Owl's Castle
- WRENN ID
- broken-merlon-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Bridge Road Owl's Castle, Long Bridge Road, Stockland, EX14 9LL
- OS grid reference
- ST 252 052
- Coordinates
- 50.84178, -3.06283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, dating from the early 16th century, originally a hall house with a floor inserted around the late 16th century. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble or cob, with a thatched roof featuring half-hipped ends and eyebrow eaves. The house has two storeys and a five-window front. The upper (west) end was initially an outbuilding. Modern metal frame casements with later panes are in the windows. A modern door leads to a cross passage, sheltered by a modern thatched rustic porch, located near the east end. Rendered chimney stacks rise from the ridge and ends of the roof. A small, two-light chamfered wood mullion window is visible at the rear. A short, modern rear wing with a half-hipped thatched roof has been added.
Inside, the roof structure consists of jointed cruck trusses. At the higher end, a plank and muntin screen features a four-centred arch, chamfered doorway. A similar doorway is on the other side of the cross passage, and another doorway, originally an external rear door, is located at the end of the cross passage. The interior also includes stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a chamfered fireplace bressumer with stone jambs, and an Adam-style chimney piece in a first-floor room.
Local climate
Lower Bridge Road Owl's Castle receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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