Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel) is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1974. House.

Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel)

WRENN ID
slow-portal-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Constituency
Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 August 1974
Type
House
Address
Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel), Beacon Road
OS grid reference
SZ 084 907
Coordinates
50.71593, -1.88107
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Highcliffe Houses, originally built as cottages for coastguards around 1850, is a well-preserved terrace of buff brick houses now serving as service accommodation for the Highcliffe Hotel. The main south front features a regular rhythm of paired windows and is highlighted by three gables, each two windows wide, that project forward by a whole bay. The windows in the gables are segment-headed, while those elsewhere are flat-headed, all with voussoirs made from the same brick. On the north side, all windows are segment-headed with red brick voussoirs. The building has a slate roof, and two of the five chimneys on the ridge have been cut down. There is a lower extension to the west.

Local climate

Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel) receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% 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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