Clifton Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. A C19 Terrace of houses. 2 related planning applications.

Clifton Terrace

WRENN ID
winding-flue-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
Terrace of houses
Address
Clifton Terrace, 8-11, Madrepore Road, TQ1 1EZ
OS grid reference
SX 917 639
Coordinates
50.46494, -3.52591
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clifton Terrace is a terrace of four houses dating to the 1850s, with number 11 possibly added later. The houses are stuccoed with slate roofs and rendered chimney shafts. Numbers 8, 9, and 10 are double-fronted, while number 11 is narrower and curves to accommodate a sloping site. The plan includes back-to-back properties with houses in Braddons Hill Road East, with the exception of number 3, which is included in the listing.

Numbers 8, 9, and 10 present a symmetrical three-bay front with 3 windows per bay. Numbers 8 and 10 exhibit deep eaves, verges, and platbands, with the central bay slightly recessed and the outer bays gabled. The ground floor windows are set in shallow segmental recesses; number 8 features a four-panel door and 12-pane sash windows. The first floor has three 12-pane sashes with a balcony, and the second floor has a central 12-pane sash and round-headed sashes with margin panes on the outer sides. Number 9 has an eaves cornice and similar windows and doors, with a 20th-century replacement balcony. Number 11 has a recessed bay to the left and a taller-roofed projecting bay to the right, curving at the end of the terrace. The windows of number 11 are late 20th-century replacements.

The interior remains uninspected but may contain features of interest. The terrace occupies a prominent location overlooking the central area of Torquay.

Local climate

Clifton Terrace receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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  • Flood risk assessment
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