Abbotsfield Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1975. Lodge.
Abbotsfield Lodge
- WRENN ID
- guardian-flint-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1975
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Abbotsfield Lodge, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 073 276
- Coordinates
- 51.04077, -3.32303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbotsfield Lodge is a lodge built around 1872, designed by architect Owen Jones. The building features coursed squared red sandstone with white limestone and Ham stone dressings, along with quoins and a dentil cornice. It has a tiled roof adorned with decorative ridge tiles. The structure has two-storey gabled wings arranged in an "L" shape, with acroteria and a small pyramid-roofed tower at the angle. A flat-roofed porch is located on the south side, and there is a lean-to extension on the east that nearly completes a square shape. The ground floor has four-light splayed bay windows in the gable ends, while the upper floor features cross windows, some of which are transomed, along with two-light mullioned and transomed windows. Most windows have leaded panes, with some having rusticated surrounds and others topped with pediments. On the east side of the tower, there is a pedimented tablet displaying a coat of arms, likely belonging to Lacey Collard, for whom Abbotsfield was constructed.
Local climate
Abbotsfield Lodge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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