Higher Ludbrook is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Country house, farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Higher Ludbrook
- WRENN ID
- third-stair-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Country house, farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Ludbrook, Ermington, PL21 0LL
- OS grid reference
- SX 660 537
- Coordinates
- 50.36799, -3.88492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Ludbrook is a small country house set in its own garden, currently functioning as a farmhouse. It is built on the site of, and incorporates some elements of, an earlier manor house. The rear (east) range dates from the 16th or 17th century, while the front (west) part was constructed in the early 19th century.
The west front is finished in stucco and features a slate hipped roof with deep moulded and dentilled eaves cornice, along with corner pilasters and a moulded plinth. The house has two storeys and four bays, with sash windows that include glazing bars. The first-floor windows have hood moulds, while the ground-floor windows are topped with pediments on console brackets. The central doorway has a pediment that is lower than those of the ground-floor windows, flanked by pilasters, and features a blind fanlight above glazed double doors. The side walls are slate hung.
At the rear, the 16th or 17th-century stone rubble range has rendered chimney stacks and is covered by a catslide slate roof. Inside this earlier range, there are stopped chamfered ceiling beams and a fireplace on the rear wall, which has a wooden bressumer supported by stone corbels.
Local climate
Higher Ludbrook receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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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