49-57, Babbacombe Downs Road is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Terrace. 4 related planning applications.
49-57, Babbacombe Downs Road
- WRENN ID
- upper-balcony-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- 49-57, Babbacombe Downs Road, TQ1 3LP
- OS grid reference
- SX 927 654
- Coordinates
- 50.47896, -3.51333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of five houses located on Babbage Downs Road in Babbacombe, Torquay. They were built in the late 1840s or early 1850s. The houses are stuccoed and have natural slate roofs with hipped ends, and rendered stacks with cornices. Each house is double-depth and one room wide.
The facades are two storeys with a one-window front to each house. Deep eaves have a moulded fascia. The original four-panel front doors have plain fanlights, with the exception of number 49, which is located on the right end of the terrace. Windows are 2-pane sashes, with horizontal glazing bars; some first-floor windows have been replaced. First-floor windows are set in rectangular recesses in the stucco and have Venetian blinds with fretted fascias that extend across the recesses. Verandahs run across the front of the terrace, some of which are glazed. Number 53 retains some original features of its verandah, including the trellis standard and fascia, while the others have plain replacements. The interiors have not been inspected, but may contain features of interest.
Local climate
49-57, Babbacombe Downs Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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