80, Compton Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. House.
80, Compton Avenue
- WRENN ID
- scarred-arch-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- 80, Compton Avenue, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 492 562
- Coordinates
- 50.387, -4.12179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 80 Compton Avenue is a former vicarage for Emmanuel Church, built in 1906. The building features roughcast render and steep red tile roofs with projecting eaves that have exposed rafters, as well as projecting verges with exposed purlins and jettied canted oriels at both the front and rear. It has an L-shaped plan, with a pair of cross wings at the front and a lower service wing at right angles to the rear left. This Arts and Crafts design is two storeys tall, plus attics, and has a three-window range at the front. The wide wooden mullioned windows are fitted with leaded glass. The central flat-roofed porch is supported by scrolled brackets and features a buttressed doorway with a planked door and a small window to the right, along with a canted bay window to the right of the porch.
Inside, there is a large entrance and stair hall that includes a large open-well staircase with an open string, panelled newels, moulded handrails, and splat balustrades. The newel posts extend upwards to support the moulded beams of a coffered and corbelled ceiling. There is an eared chimneypiece in the right-hand room, though the rest of the interior has not been inspected. This building is a notable example of a restrained design influenced by architects such as Voysey and Parker.
Local climate
80, Compton Avenue 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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