Lower Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1976. House.
Lower Lodge
- WRENN ID
- tangled-barrel-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Lodge, Lynton and Lynmouth, North Devon
- OS grid reference
- SS 694 490
- Coordinates
- 51.22566, -3.87039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Lodge is a detached house, likely built around 1875, located in Lynton and Lynmouth. This picturesque building showcases an elaborate Cottage Ornee style, featuring a central entry and an asymmetrical front with twin gables. It stands two storeys high and has a two-window range. The windows are wood casements with mullions and decorative cast-iron lights.
On the upper floor, there are two four-light windows beneath carved flat lintels with peaked heads, set on slate sills. The ground floor includes a three-light window and a canted bay window with a 1:4:1-light configuration to the right, which is covered by a pent roof supported by stone piers. This bay also shelters a central pair of plank doors with fleur-de-lys hinges and a side-light, all under a straight moulded wood lintel. The gables feature rich triple-cusped barge-boards supported by elaborate carved corbels, with the right gable returning the detailing. The overall walling is plain, except for one small light at ground level and a plain mid string. The left gable jetties slightly on a series of stone corbels.
The roof is tiled with scalloped ends and has a decorative clay ridge. The plain left gable features a large chimney stack, with another centrally located ridge stack. The rear of the building is simple, with a small gabled section that may contain the staircase. The interior is not accessible. Lower Lodge is a richly detailed example of a cottage from the Lee Abbey estate, similar in style to Valley Lodge and Lee Cottage in Martinhoe Civil Parish.
Local climate
Lower Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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