Rock Park Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. Lodge. 3 related planning applications.
Rock Park Lodge
- WRENN ID
- tired-gallery-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Rock Park Lodge, New Road, Barnstaple, EX32 9AH
- OS grid reference
- SS 562 326
- Coordinates
- 51.07472, -4.05321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Park Lodge is a lodge built around 1879, designed in the Queen Anne style. It is constructed from Flemish bond red brick, featuring a single-storey block with stretcher bond, and has a concrete tile roof adorned with terracotta finials. The building includes brick stacks with some tumbling and corbelled cornices, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
The lodge has an asymmetrical plan that faces Rock Park to the west, with a service court at the back adjacent to New Road. The main block is one and a half storeys high, with an entrance front that has one window. Notable brick detailing includes rubbed and moulded brickwork, and an external panel featuring a terracotta swag of fruit within an egg and dart frame on the northeast side. The eaves cornice is coved, and there is a platband with terracotta motifs. The windows are original casements with high transoms and glazing bars.
The entrance elevation features a porch located at the angle between the main block and a projecting wing. The main range has a half-hipped roof and a two-storey bay, with a tile-hung panel between the three-light ground-floor and first-floor windows. The ground-floor window of the bay is decorated with an elaborate dentil frieze, modillions, and corner brackets. The porch has a hipped roof supported by a post and an eight-panel door, along with a small oriel window on moulded brackets on the left side. The end of the wing facing south has canted corners and is corbelled at the first-floor level, featuring a central two-light ground-floor casement flanked by one-light windows in the return corners of the bay. The roof is hipped with a large gabled half dormer that includes a four-light oriel window.
On the east side, there is a single-storey block with a scalloped gutter and short curved outlet pipes. The rear elevation, which faces New Road, has courtyard walls with a gateway that includes gate piers topped with ball finials. The interior has not been inspected. This lodge is recognized as an early example of its architectural style.
Local climate
Rock Park Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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