Berry Head Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. Hotel. 6 related planning applications.
Berry Head Hotel
- WRENN ID
- guardian-rafter-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Berry Head Hotel, Berry Head Road, Brixham, TQ5 9AJ
- OS grid reference
- SX 938 567
- Coordinates
- 50.4008, -3.49471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Berry Head Hotel is a building that originally served as a military hospital and later became a private house before being converted into a hotel. It was constructed between 1809 and 1810, with some additions made to the north in the late 20th century. The structure is made of Devonian limestone rubble and features a hipped slated roof. The main building is U-shaped, with ranges extending to the north, east, and west, and includes two smaller buildings to the south of the east and west ranges, which were likely originally connected to the main building.
The entrance was probably located on the west side, situated between the two sections of the west range. The hotel has two storeys and a nine-window front on the north side, with the end windows set in shallow projections. The east and west sides each have seven-window fronts. The windows feature flat lintels made of three limestone voussoirs, although the west and north ranges have late 20th-century windows, while the east range retains some original six-paned sash windows. The building is topped with a simple stepped cornice and a low parapet with flat coping.
Notably, this building was later the home of Reverend Henry Francis Lyte, who is known for writing the hymn "Abide with Me."
Local climate
Berry Head Hotel receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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