South Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Lodge.
South Lodge
- WRENN ID
- gilded-pedestal-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- South Lodge, St. Giles in the Wood
- OS grid reference
- SS 528 183
- Coordinates
- 50.94552, -4.09655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Lodge is a former lodge to Stevenstone House, built around 1870 by the Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle. The building is constructed from local stone rubble, featuring rock-faced sandstone ashlar quoins and ashlar dressings, with stone rubble stacks that have diagonally set divided brick chimney shafts, all topped by a slate roof. The house has a T-plan layout, with the main block facing west towards the former drive. It consists of a two-room plan on either side of a central entrance hall, each room having projecting gable-end stacks. At the rear, a slightly lower one-room plan kitchen block projects at right angles and also features a gable-end stack.
The exterior displays a symmetrical two-window front in an eccentric Tudor style. A full-height central entrance bay slightly juts forward, featuring a Tudor arch doorway with a 20th-century door and overlight, sheltered by an early 20th-century porch. Above the doorway is a small oculus window, and the top of the bay jetties out on a series of corbels. The shouldered gable includes an engaged stone pendant. The windows on either side have chamfered reveals and contain 20th-century casements without glazing bars. The first-floor windows are half dormers with shouldered gables that break forward slightly, creating an oriel window effect. The main roof is gable-ended with ashlar coping. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
South Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
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