South Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Lodge.
South Lodge
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- South Lodge, Leat Road, Lifton
- OS grid reference
- SX 388 848
- Coordinates
- 50.64062, -4.28018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Lodge is a lodge to Lifton Park, now used as a house, built around the late 1860s for Henry Bradshaw. It is constructed of stone rubble with granite dressings and buff and orange brick. The ornamental slate roof is gabled at the ends and features three gables at the front, topped with an elaborate brick shaft on the ridge. This building is in the High Victorian style, though it is less decorative than Hornapark, the lodge to Lifton Park in Lifton.
The lodge is two storeys high with a three-bay symmetrical front that has very deep eaves, a plinth, rusticated quoins, and a prominent central chimney stack. There is a central porch with a moulded cornice and an embattled parapet. The front door is a two-leaf half-glazed design with diagonal leaded panes, flanked by two-light windows on the left and right. The first floor features three two-light casement windows, while the ground floor has two, all with diagonal leaded panes and buff and orange brick architraves that include keystones and projecting granite sills. Blocked keyed brick oculi are present in the left and right front gables.
The tall two-stage brick shaft on the roof has a corbelled cornice, with a lower tier of blank recesses and an upper tier of round-headed blind arcading in polychromatic brickwork. The lodge originally had elaborate pierced Gothick bargeboarding, of which only the stumps remain on the facade. Although the bargeboarding and some 20th-century reglazing have been lost, the character of the house has been preserved. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
South Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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