Mentmore Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. Cottage.
Mentmore Lodge
- WRENN ID
- graven-tallow-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mentmore Lodge, Milton Damerel
- OS grid reference
- SS 372 099
- Coordinates
- 50.86611, -4.31471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mentmore Lodge is a cottage dating from the early 18th century, with 20th-century additions. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. There is a brick stack at the gable end. The layout consists of a two-room plan, with a larger heated room on the right and a small dairy on the left, with stairs located behind. An earlier 20th-century lean-to has been added to the right end, along with a late 20th-century outshut at the rear.
The cottage is two storeys high and has a regular two-window front. The first floor has early 20th-century two-light casements, while the ground floor features a mix of late 20th-century single and two-light casements. To the left of the center is a 19th-century plank door, which is sheltered by a late 19th or early 20th-century open-fronted stone porch. There is also a slate-roofed 20th-century lean-to against the right-hand end, with a small porch in front of it.
Inside, there is an open fireplace with a roughly chamfered wooden lintel and a cloam oven to the left. The ceiling beams have been replaced, and the feet of rough straight principal rafters are visible on the first floor.
Local climate
Mentmore Lodge 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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