Excalibur House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villa, hotel.
Excalibur House
- WRENN ID
- patient-glass-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Villa, hotel
- Address
- Excalibur House, Tor Vale
- OS grid reference
- SX 909 648
- Coordinates
- 50.47329, -3.53837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Excalibur House is a villa, currently operating as a hotel, built around the 1850s. The building is plastered and features a hipped slate roof with a rendered chimney stack that has a cornice. The main block has a double-depth rectangular plan with two rear service wings.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical two-window front. It includes an eaves band, a platband, and pilasters on both the left and right sides. There are two tall six-over-nine pane sash windows with plain plat architraves on the ground floor, and two twelve-pane sash windows with Venetian shutters on the first floor, along with a 20th-century window inserted between them. A four-bay timber trellis verandah spans the front, featuring a timber fascia designed in a Chinese Chippendale style. The entrance is located on the left return, leading into a modern glazed porch that also serves as a conservatory.
The interior has not been inspected, but it may still contain some interesting features.
Local climate
Excalibur House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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