The Lodge
THE LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213116
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- THE LODGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213116
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LODGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brendon and Countisbury
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 79361 49375
Details
COUNTISBURY SS 74 NE 4/26 The Lodge - GV II Gate lodge. Dated 1832 and 1853. Uncoursed stone rubble. Gable-ended plain-tile roof with wide band of fishscale tiles. Pierced shaped barge boards with finials. Integral stone end stack to left topped by 2 octagonal terracotta or stone shafts with moulded bases and capitals and external stone and stack to right with chamfered offsets, some slate hanging and topped by 2 octagonal terracotta shafts with moulded bases and capitals. Plan: T-plan with projecting gabled cross wing to right. Tudor Gothic style. 1 storey and attic. Exterior: asymmetrical 2-window front with slightly projecting gabled cross-wing to the right and large gabled half dormer to the left. 3-light wooden mullioned wooden casements with octagonal pattern cast-iron glazing bars and returned wooden hoodmoulds. Ground-floor canted by to right of 1:2:1 lights with hipped slate roof and stone cill. Central 6-panelled door beaded wooden frame and returned hoodmould. Millstone set in wall above with surround and small shield inscribed: "Nov/1953" Stone to right of door inscribed:"JULY 1832". 1-storey lean-to to right-hand side wall with 4-centred arched boarded doorway. Interior: not inspected. This is the principal lodge to Glenthorne (q.v), the house built for the Revd. W.S. Halliday c. 1829 - 32 and later. The later date probably refers to the time of completion or later alterations. The lodge displays the influence of designs illustrated by P. F. Robinson's Rural Architecture; or a Series of Designs for Ornamental Cottages, published in 1823.
Listing NGR: SS7936149375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397600
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, P F, Rural Architecture or a Series of Designs for Ornamental Cottages, (1823)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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