We define a notion of extrinsic black hole in pure Lovelock gravity of degree k which captures the essential features of the so-called Lovelock-Schwarzschild solutions, viewed as rotationally invariant hypersurfaces with null 2k-mean curvature in Euclidean space R n+1 , 2 ≤ 2k ≤ n − 1. We then combine a regularity argument with a rigidity result by Araújo and Leite (Indiana University Mathematics Journal pp. 2012) to prove, under a natural ellipticity condition, a global uniqueness theorem for this class of black holes. As a consequence we obtain, in the context of the corresponding Penrose inequality for graphs established by Ge et al. (Advances in Mathematics 266: 84-119, 2014), a local rigidity result for the Lovelock-Schwarzschild solutions.