Bradridge Lodge Including Garden Gate Immediately South East and 3 Gate Piers Immediately South West is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Lodge.
Bradridge Lodge Including Garden Gate Immediately South East and 3 Gate Piers Immediately South West
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-rood-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1993
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Bradridge Lodge Including Garden Gate Immediately South East and 3 Gate Piers Immediately South West, Diptford
- OS grid reference
- SX 732 575
- Coordinates
- 50.40386, -3.78439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bradridge Lodge is an early 19th century lodge associated with Bradridge House. It stands alongside a garden gate and three gate piers forming the entrance drive. The lodge is constructed of limewashed slate rubble with a low-pitched pyramidal scantle slate roof covered in bitumen. Deep eaves are carried on timber posts to create a verandah on the front and sides. A rendered square stack rises from the apex of the roof.
The lodge has a square, single-story, four-room, double-depth plan, facing the entrance drive to Bradridge House. A central doorway leads directly into the left-hand living room; a smaller room to the right was likely a bedroom, with a matching room behind, both heated by back-to-back fireplaces. A shared stack serves the kitchen situated behind the front left-hand room. The front and sides feature a verandah, with six rustic timber posts supporting the eaves on the front and five on each side, excluding the corner posts. A 20th-century outshut now extends to the back of the lodge.
The symmetrical front elevation has one window on either side of a central doorway, all with segmental stone arch heads. Later 19th-century two-light casement windows are set within these arches, along with a glazed and panelled door. Similar two-light casements are found on the side elevations. Interior features include original joinery, such as panelled doors and simple wooden chimney pieces.
The lodge includes an early 19th century wrought iron garden gate in front, featuring two concentric rings with intersecting and scroll patterns and circles in the spandrels. Square cast-iron gate posts with moulded finials are also present. Three gate piers flank the main drive entrance; they are constructed of slate rubble with cemented caps that are squat and square in plan. Two piers flank the drive, and a third serves the foot gate. The gates themselves are 20th century.
Local climate
Bradridge Lodge Including Garden Gate Immediately South East and 3 Gate Piers Immediately South West receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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