Higher Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Higher Lodge
- WRENN ID
- carved-render-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Higher Lodge, Offwell, EX14 9RY
- OS grid reference
- ST 188 000
- Coordinates
- 50.79417, -3.15256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Lodge is a house that was formerly a lodge to Offwell House, built around 1840. It is constructed from local stone and flint rubble, featuring a stone rubble stack with a cream-colored brick diagonal chimney shaft and a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the main block facing north-west, containing the entrance hall and kitchen. The main living room is in a crosswing that projects forward from the left (north-east) end, with an axial stack that serves back-to-back fireplaces. The house is two storeys tall and designed in the Tudor Gothic style.
The exterior features a 1:1-window front. The gable end of the crosswing has a canted bay window on the ground floor, which contains narrow lights with chamfered reveals. Above this is a 2-light window with a hoodmould. The gable is adorned with cusped bargeboards and an apex finial. The main front has single light windows, with the ground floor window featuring a hoodmould and the first floor window having a gable above it, also with cusped bargeboards, resembling a smaller version of the crosswing gable. All windows have broad stucco architraves and chamfered reveals, and they contain late 19th century and 20th century casements with glazing bars. The front doorway, located next to the crosswing, is designed with a Tudor arch and is sheltered by a monopitch porch supported by plain posts. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Higher Lodge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2014
- 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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