Lower Harefield Lodge and Railings and Gatepiers is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. A C19 Lodge. 4 related planning applications.
Lower Harefield Lodge and Railings and Gatepiers
- WRENN ID
- stony-pavement-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1986
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lower Harefield Lodge and Railings and Gatepiers, 1 and 2, Exmouth Road, Lympstone, EX8 5LT
- OS grid reference
- SX 999 841
- Coordinates
- 50.64844, -3.41664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Harefield Lodge and its railings and gatepiers are a pair of detached lodges dating from the 1830s and likely designed by William Burgess, the architect of Harefield House. They are constructed from sandstone ashlar with gabled-end slate roofs. The lodges are single-storeyed, built in a cross plan. Each lodge has paired or single round-headed windows with capitals decorated with stiff leaves. Each lodge has a rear stone stack with paired barley-sugar brick shafts. The roof ridge line of the main range, which runs parallel with the drive, is higher than that of the subsidiary range, which runs parallel with Exmouth Road. The lodges face the drive. Contemporary simple iron railings run alongside the drive. The entrance is marked by limestone gatepiers of square section, topped with balls. Double gates are set between them, along with associated railings featuring quatrefoil tiers, fleur-de-lys finials, open-work octagonal newels, and cupolas.
Local climate
Lower Harefield Lodge and Railings and Gatepiers receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 3 transactions since 2011
- 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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