Brooking Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. House. 1 related planning application.
Brooking Lodge
- WRENN ID
- waiting-span-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brooking Lodge, Dartington, TQ9 6DW
- OS grid reference
- SX 758 607
- Coordinates
- 50.4332, -3.74897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brooking Lodge is a schoolroom and adjoining schoolmistress's house, now combined into one dwelling. Built in 1860–1861, it was designed by J L Pearson, who also designed the Church of St Barnabas and Brooking House.
The building is constructed of local limestone rubble with dressed quoins. The roof is steeply pitched with asbestos slate, featuring half-hipped ends with small gablets. Ridge tiles are low-crested in the style of the 17th century, with simple clay finials over the gablets. An axial ridge stack of stone rubble runs through the building, and the gables are hung with rag slate.
The overall plan is L-shaped, comprising a three-room schoolmistress's house to the right with an integral outshut at the rear, and the former schoolroom forming a projecting wing to the left. The right-hand gable end faces the road. The design exemplifies the Arts and Crafts vernacular revival style.
The exterior is two storeys, with an asymmetrical east front. The house to the right has two windows with 18th-century two-light casements in small slate-hung gables. The ground floor to the right features a depressed two-centred ash doorway with a 19th-century plank door hung on wrought iron hinges. To the left, the ground floor window is a 20th-century casement in the original opening with a timber lintel.
The half-hipped gable end of the former schoolroom to the left contains a 19th-century two-light first-floor casement with a timber lintel, and a 19th-century four-light first-floor casement window, also with a timber lintel and a wide relieving arch. In the angle to the right sits a blocked doorway to the schoolroom with a slated hood and a small round-headed window inserted.
On the south return of the schoolroom to the left, there is a 20th-century canted bay window to the right and a small slate-hung gable to the left with a casement. At the rear (west), an outshut with a catslide roof extends behind the house; the outshut to the right of the former schoolroom was enclosed in the 20th century.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Brooking Lodge 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- 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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