Lower Lookout is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. Cottage.
Lower Lookout
- WRENN ID
- rooted-cellar-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lower Lookout, Woolfardisworthy
- OS grid reference
- SS 354 236
- Coordinates
- 50.9883, -4.34537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Lookout is a cottage dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features whitewashed stone rubble walls and a gable-ended roof covered with asbestos slate. A rubble stack with a drip course is located at the right gable end. The cottage likely has a two-room plan, with a smaller unheated room on the left and the entrance in the right gable end next to the stack.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical two-window front. This includes 19th-century small-paned casements with one and two lights, fitted with H-L hinges. There is also a 19th-century panelled and glazed door situated in the right gable end wall, which is set at an obtuse angle to the front. A small 20th-century lean-to has been added in front of the left-hand end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lower Lookout sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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