Ashley Combe Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Lodge, toll house.
Ashley Combe Lodge
- WRENN ID
- idle-landing-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1986
- Type
- Lodge, toll house
- Address
- Ashley Combe Lodge, Porlock Weir, Somerset, TA24 8PG
- OS grid reference
- SS 858 481
- Coordinates
- 51.22144, -3.63631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashley Combe Lodge is a late 19th-century lodge and toll house, possibly designed by Lady Lovelace. It is constructed from red sandstone random rubble with brick dressings and features a hipped thatched roof. The building has roughcast stacks on the left gable end and between the second and third bays on the left.
The plan includes a gateway with the dwelling situated to the north. The east facade is curved and extended by a full-height curved wall with an archway, while the west front is serpentine in shape and exhibits an Arts and Crafts picturesque style.
On the west front, the building is two storeys high, with three windows to the left of a semicircular headed archway that has a skew brick arch. To the right, there is a lancet window. The curved walls feature a Lombardic frieze cornice, and all windows are two-light many paned casements. The left two bays contain a central plank door, and the bay on the left facade bulges forward with asymmetrically placed windows and a plank door in the curved wall near the gateway.
The east front continues the Lombardic frieze cornice around the curved retaining wall, which has a semi-circular headed archway leading to a footpath, closed by a 20th-century wooden gate. There are a pair of semi-circular headed many paned windows on the first floor, with a similar window below and a lancet window to the right of the archway leading to the toll road, also closed by a 20th-century wooden gate. The interior has not been seen. The northern two bays are likely a nearly contemporary extension. Ashley Combe itself was demolished in 1974.
Local climate
Ashley Combe Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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