Cliffside Cottage Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Hotel, house.

Cliffside Cottage Hotel

WRENN ID
bitter-jamb-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
Hotel, house
Address
Cliffside Cottage Hotel, Beach Road
OS grid reference
SX 929 653
Coordinates
50.47796, -3.50966
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cliffside Cottage Hotel is a house built in two phases around the 1840s, with later additions and alterations. The exterior features a stuccoed finish with rusticated quoins and a slate roof that is gabled at both ends. The building has stacks with octagonal shafts and platbands, along with crested ridge tiles.

The sea-facing elevation is two storeys high, while the rear elevation is single-storey. The front has a 2:2-window arrangement, with the right-hand block featuring a first-floor timber verandah that has two gables and a Tudor arched arcade. There are two ground-floor and two first-floor two-light timber casements. The left block has a two-window front and a flat-roofed single-storey addition at the front. The rear elevation has a six-window range with two gables and a projecting gabled porch that includes a chamfered Tudor doorway with a six-panel door. The building has 20th-century metal-frame windows.

The interior has not been inspected. Cliffside Cottage Hotel is part of a group of picturesque small houses located on the steep wooded cliffside above Babbacombe beach.

Local climate

Cliffside Cottage Hotel 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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