Higher Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Higher Lodge
- WRENN ID
- late-pavement-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Higher Lodge, Buddle Hill, Selworthy, Somerset, TA24 8TH
- OS grid reference
- SS 912 462
- Coordinates
- 51.20545, -3.55777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Lodge is a lodge for Holnicote House, built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from red sandstone random rubble and features hipped thatched roofs, with a central moulded stone stack set diagonally. The building has a cruciform plan and the rear elevation (east) jetties out on timber piers with weatherboarded infill, showcasing a picturesque style.
The lodge is one and a half storeys tall. On the west front, there is a single-storey projection with a hipped roof, which includes a 2-light mullioned and transomed arched head window. The north front has a projecting hipped roof bay with a leaded iron casement, and the entrance is through a plank door on the right, with a lean-to addition on the left. The east front features a 2-light arched window with divided tracery on the first floor above the timber infill, while a similar window is found on the south front crosswing, which has an inserted 20th-century window to the left.
Local climate
Higher 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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