Bridge Cottages and Adjacent Shop (Hodge the Baker) is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. House and shop. 1 related planning application.
Bridge Cottages and Adjacent Shop (Hodge the Baker)
- WRENN ID
- broken-oriel-woodpecker
- 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
- House and shop
- Address
- Bridge Cottages and Adjacent Shop (Hodge the Baker), 6, Strand, Lympstone, EX8 5EY
- OS grid reference
- SX 988 840
- Coordinates
- 50.64734, -3.43159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Cottages and the adjacent shop, known as Hodge The Baker, is a house and shop with a dwelling that dates from the mid-19th century or earlier. It is constructed of cob or possibly brick, with block plastering, and has a rubble masonry range at the rear. The building features gabled-end slate roofs and has a single-depth plan with rear extensions. There is an axial stack that is pebbledashed.
The building stands two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of windows on the front, which has a slightly curved shape. On the first floor, there are three hornless sash windows, each with four panes above and eight below. The ground floor includes an Edwardian shop window with plate glass, a porch, and a central entrance that is depressed and features a moulded cornice displaying the name of the shop. To the right of the entrance is a round-headed doorway leading to the dwelling, which has panelled reveals and soffit, along with a half-glazed door topped by a semi-circular fanlight.
No. 1 Bridge Cottage was also once a shop; the cornice remains, but the original shop window beneath is now blocked, except for a 20th-century hornless sash window with two lights on the left-hand elevation. The rear extensions mostly have 20th-century casement windows, although two 16-pane hornless sash windows are still present.
Local climate
Bridge Cottages and Adjacent Shop (Hodge the Baker) 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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