Higher Lodge
HIGHER LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318066
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER LODGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318066
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER 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:
- HIGHER LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Offwell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST1886400036
Details
ST 10 SE
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OFFWELL
OFFWELL
Higher Lodge
II
House, former lodge to Offwell House (q.v). Circa 1840. Local stone and flint
rubble; stone rubble stack with cream-coloured brick divided diagonal chimneyshaft;
slate roof.
Plan: L-plan building. The main block faces north-west and contains the entrance
hall and kitchen. The main living room is a crosswing which projects forward from
the left (north-east) end. An axial stack between serves back-to-back fireplaces.
2 storeys. Tudor Gothic style.
Exterior: 1:1-window front. The front gable-end of the crosswing has a canted bay
ground floor window containing narrow lights with chamfered reveals. Above a 2-
light window with hoodmould. The gable has cusped bargeboards with an apex finial.
The main front has single light windows; the ground floor one has a hoodmould and
the first floor one has a gable over with cusped bargeboards (a miniature version of
the crosswing gable). All the windows have broad stucco architraves and chamfered
reveals. They contain late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. The front
doorway is next to the crosswing and it is a Tudor arch under a monopitch porch on
plain posts.
Interior: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SY1986400036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88791
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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