Knightshayes Lodge and Gate Piers and Quadrant Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 2000. Lodge, gate piers, quadrant walls. 2 related planning applications.

Knightshayes Lodge and Gate Piers and Quadrant Walls

WRENN ID
over-basalt-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 April 2000
Type
Lodge, gate piers, quadrant walls
Address
Knightshayes Lodge and Gate Piers and Quadrant Walls, Tiverton
OS grid reference
SS 956 145
Coordinates
50.9209, -3.48579
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Knightshayes Lodge, gate piers, and quadrant walls were likely built around 1868 or shortly after by William Burges. The structure is made of squared stone rubble with details probably in dressed Ham stone. The lodge features a tiled roof with crested ridge tiles, some of which are missing, and has a large stone rubble chimney on the cross-wing. It is designed in a Tudor style, resembling a late medieval house.

The exterior includes a single-storey hall range on the right and a two-storey gable cross-wing on the left. The hall has a four-light mullioned and transomed window on the right and a pointed arched doorway on the left. Above these, there is a string course and a row of three shields displaying coats-of-arms. The cross-wing features a five-light mullioned and transomed bay window on the ground floor, which has canted sides and a pent roof, along with a three-light mullioned window on the upper storey. The gable has flat coping with kneelers and a moulded apex, as well as a small round window in the centre.

The left return, which faces Bolham Lane, has a six-light bay window on the ground floor with square sides and a pent roof. A string course runs at eaves level, continuing from the front elevation. There is also a two-light gabled dormer in the upper storey, featuring stone coping and kneelers. The windows on both elevations have unmoulded stone surrounds and small-paned glazing with margin panes, with iron glazing bars. The rear elevation of the cross-wing is similar to the front but lacks the bay window.

The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features. The gate piers have rough-faced bases and ashlar tops, designed as pedestals with moulded caps and bases, finished with short flat-topped pyramids. Each pedestal displays a shield with a coat-of-arms. The quadrant walls, made of squared rubble, have chamfered copings of dressed rubble that flank the gate piers.

Local climate

Knightshayes Lodge and Gate Piers and Quadrant Walls receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% 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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