Lower Court is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. House.
Lower Court
- WRENN ID
- blind-crypt-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Court, Iddesleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 570 081
- Coordinates
- 50.85548, -4.0329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Court is a house that was originally a pair of cottages, dating from around the mid-17th century. It features plastered cob walls and a hipped thatch roof, with a central axial brick stack. The building is now a single house but was likely originally two cottages, each with a two-room plan, where the inner room was heated by the central stack and the outer room served as a small unheated service area.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with three windows, which are modern casements in small openings, including one-light, two-light, and three-light designs from the 20th century. There are two 19th-century plank doors located at the left and right ends of the façade. The rear elevation still has an original three-light wooden mullion window with a chamfered design. The interior was inaccessible during the survey, but it may have original features such as ceiling beams, fireplaces, and roof timbers.
Local climate
Lower Court sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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