Battershill House is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1977. House. 1 related planning application.

Battershill House

WRENN ID
vacant-footing-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 April 1977
Type
House
Address
Battershill House, Arcadia Road, City of Plymouth, PL9 8EG
OS grid reference
SX 531 529
Coordinates
50.35833, -4.06586
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Battershill House is a probable farmhouse that has been converted into two houses. It likely dates from the 17th century or early 18th century. The building is constructed of rubble, with the front mostly rendered and the rest painted. It features a hipped roof, with the left side covered in scantle slate and some 17th-century crested clay ridge tiles, while the rest is finished with dry slate. There are two large gabled lateral stacks at the rear. The original layout was probably a three-room and through or cross-passage plan, with a later lean-to added at the rear left.

The house is two storeys high and has an overall six-window range with irregularly placed openings. The left side features late 19th-century horned sash windows, while the rest of the windows are from the 20th century. There is a glazed and panelled door on the left side, and a 20th-century door within a 20th-century conservatory on the right.

Inside the left-hand part, the hall has slate flags, early 19th-century window panelled shutters, an arched doorway with fluted pilasters, cupboards with moulded frames, and two fireplaces on the rear wall. The interior was only partially inspected.

Local climate

Battershill House 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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