South Devon Place is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1971. Terrace of houses. 8 related planning applications.

South Devon Place

WRENN ID
small-barrel-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1971
Type
Terrace of houses
Address
South Devon Place, 37-79, Embankment Road, City of Plymouth, PL4 9HX
OS grid reference
SX 491 544
Coordinates
50.3706, -4.12225
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South Devon Place is a planned terrace of 22 houses built in the early to mid-19th century in Plymouth. The houses are stucco-faced with stucco detailing, originally slate roofs, though most have been replaced with asbestos slate. They have parapets with moulded cornices, and dormer windows. The two-storey houses have mansard roofs with mansard dormers, some featuring segmental pediments. Brick or rendered axial and end stacks are present.

The central eight houses are three storeys plus attics, with a triangular pediment over the central five-window-range pair. The flanking houses are two storeys plus attics. Apart from the central pair, each house is a two-window range. Ground-floor windows and doors are recessed with round arches and impost strings. A first-floor sill string runs along the facades, and most first-floor window openings have moulded architraves. The central pair also feature moulded brackets above the first-floor windows and moulded architraves to the second floor. Later 19th-century and 20th-century horned sash windows are present, along with some late 20th-century windows and plain fanlights over 20th-century doors that replaced earlier panelled doors in most houses. The interiors have not been inspected, but are likely to retain original features of interest.

Local climate

South Devon Place 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 — 19 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 8 applications
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  • 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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