Starcross Lodge

Starcross Lodge is a lodge for Powderham Castle, built around 1860. It is constructed from grey limestone rubble with decorative polychromatic brick details and features a slate roof that is gabled at both ends, topped with crested ridge tiles and brick chimney stacks. The building showcases a Gothic architectural style.

The lodge has an L-shaped plan, with the main block featuring one entrance that faces the drive to Powderham Castle and a second entrance at the rear that faces the road parallel to the Exe Estuary. It stands two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front elevation with a 1:1 window arrangement facing the drive, where the gabled end of the wing is located to the left. The front door, situated to the left of the main block, is sheltered by a sloping porch hood supported by cusped brackets. Above the door is a stone shield displaying the Courtenay family coat of arms. To the right of the door is a projecting stack with set-offs.

The end of the wing features one casement window on the ground floor and one on the first floor, both with crank-headed arched tops and 19th-century two-light casements. There is also a small one-light window on the ground floor in the inner return of the wing. The right side of the main block includes a canted bay window on the ground floor and a three-light crank-arched window above, both with 19th-century two-light casements and cusped bargeboards.

The east elevation, which faces the road, is irregularly shaped, projecting to the front on the right side. It has a half-hipped roof in the center with curved brackets and a crank-headed arched doorframe that holds a plank door, with a one-light window above it. There is one ground floor and one first floor window to the right, similar in design to those on the west elevation.

The lodge remains very intact externally and is situated prominently along the roadside. The interior has not been inspected.