Nos 2 and 4 and Attached Garden Walls to No 2 is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villa, flat.

Nos 2 and 4 and Attached Garden Walls to No 2

WRENN ID
burning-chapel-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
Villa, flat
Address
Nos 2 and 4 and Attached Garden Walls to No 2, Southfield Rise
OS grid reference
SX 884 613
Coordinates
50.44101, -3.57248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 2 and 4 are a pair of villas, now divided into flats, with attached garden walls to No. 2. They were built around 1840 and feature a rendered exterior with a hipped slate roof and stacks with rendered shafts and platbands. The overall layout is U-shaped, with two wings flanking a central range. The villas are entered towards the center.

The exterior has three-storey wings and a two-storey central section. Originally, the front was symmetrically designed with three bays on each side. It has deep eaves, pilaster strips on the wings, and a platband at the second-floor sill level. The central block is recessed and topped with a shallow pedimented gable. A three-bay Doric arcade spans the front, creating a breccia-paved verandah with round-headed arches supported by paired columns. The verandah was glazed in the late 19th century, featuring a mix of windows and glazed doors with low panels.

On the first floor, there are two 12-pane sash windows, while the wings have recessed central six-panel doors on the ground floor, with No. 2 featuring a replaced door. Most windows are intact 12-pane 19th-century sashes, although some have been reglazed in their original openings. Notably, No. 4 has an unfortunate attic dormer with a plastic window and Venetian shutters with scalloped fascias, though one pair of shutters is missing. The rear elevation was not seen during the survey. No. 2 has tall red breccia rubble garden walls. The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features. This building is paired with Nos. 12 and 14.

Local climate

Nos 2 and 4 and Attached Garden Walls to No 2 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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