Sowton Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1952. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Sowton Lodge
- WRENN ID
- high-pier-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1952
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Sowton Lodge, Sowton Lane, EX5 2AQ
- OS grid reference
- SX 970 931
- Coordinates
- 50.72864, -3.46046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sowton Lodge is a former lodge to Bishop's Court, built in 1834. It is constructed of snecked limestone and features a gabled-end and hipped slate roof. The building has a single-depth plan with two cross wings, each containing a principal room on either side of a central recessed doorway. The rear lateral stacks provide heating for each room, with the left stack featuring a hall polygonal shelf and the right stack having a conventional brick shaft.
The front of the lodge is symmetrical, with two flanking cross wings that have gabled-end roofs adorned with wavy bargeboarding and an apex pendant. There is a single lancet window with a hood mould. The main roof extends to form a veranda over the central entrance, supported by two posts. Each room is illuminated at either end by a two-light casement window with a chamfered stone surround, set beneath a gabled-end projection that also has wavy bargeboarding.
Local climate
Sowton Lodge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 1995
- 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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