Cleve Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Villa.
Cleve Villa
- WRENN ID
- lunar-obsidian-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Cleve Villa, 19, Laira Avenue, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 506 559
- Coordinates
- 50.38397, -4.10276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cleve Villa is a villa built in the early to mid-19th century. It features a stucco exterior and a dry slate roof with projecting eaves and rendered end stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high, showcasing a symmetrical three-bay front with a recessed central entrance bay.
A full-width, five-bay wooden trellised verandah adorns the front, supported by shaped fretted arches and topped with a hipped slate roof. The verandah includes a projecting central gable with a shaped barge board that leads to an enclosed central glazed porch, which has margin lights and a door also featuring margin glazing.
On the ground floor, the windows are casements with pointed arches, glazed spandrels, and lights that have intersecting heads and octagonal panes. The first floor has an original 16-pane hornless sash window on the left, a pointed-arched central window with a pair of casements that have glazing bars, and a 16-pane horned sash copy on the right. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
Cleve Villa sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
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