Lodges, Gate-Piers and Gates to the Exe Vale Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1985. Lodges and gates.
Lodges, Gate-Piers and Gates to the Exe Vale Hospital
- WRENN ID
- second-facade-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1985
- Type
- Lodges and gates
- Address
- Lodges, Gate-Piers and Gates to the Exe Vale Hospital, Exminster
- OS grid reference
- SX 941 881
- Coordinates
- 50.68302, -3.49903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lodges, gate piers, and gates to the Exe Vale Hospital were built between 1842 and 1845 by Charles Fowler. The lodges are constructed from breccia ashlar with granite and freestone dressings, featuring slate pyramid roofs with lead rolls at the hips and rendered stacks. Each lodge consists of two adjoining blocks, with one block set slightly forward and the original stack located at the junction of the two blocks. The north lodge has an additional single-storey block at the rear, while the south lodge has undergone some 20th-century modifications.
The lodges flank the entrance drive, with two gate piers for the carriageway positioned between them, linked to each lodge by a screen that includes a pair of pedestrian gates. The lodges are two storeys high, each with one window on the ground floor and one on the first floor, featuring rusticated granite quoins and freestone bracketed eaves cornices. The ground floor has 12-pane sash windows in granite architraves, and the south lodge includes an extra ground floor window. Each lodge also has two first-floor 12-pane sashes set in pedimented dormers. The square-headed doorways on the inner returns of each lodge have moulded granite architraves with cornices and panelled aprons.
Between the lodges, a vehicle gateway is flanked by rusticated chamfered granite gate piers with bracketed cornices and pyramidal caps, as well as granite pilasters. On either side of the main entrance, paired pedestrian gateways are separated by smaller granite piers with rounded caps. The gates are made of good cast iron, with the main vehicular gates featuring diagonal braces above the middle rail and bold cresting above the top rail. An iron overthrow is positioned above the main gates, and iron lampholders are mounted on the smaller piers. The lodges and gates lead into a long straight avenue in front of Centre House, the administrative block of the former Devon County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, contributing significantly to the impressive setting of Centre House.
Local climate
Lodges, Gate-Piers and Gates to the Exe Vale Hospital receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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