Retaining Walls to Belvedere House Hotel and Braddons Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Retaining wall. 4 related planning applications.
Retaining Walls to Belvedere House Hotel and Braddons Hill House
- WRENN ID
- pale-shingle-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Retaining Walls to Belvedere House Hotel and Braddons Hill House, Braddons Hill Road West, TQ1 1BG
- OS grid reference
- SX 918 637
- Coordinates
- 50.46318, -3.52506
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are mid-19th century retaining garden walls associated with the Belvedere House Hotel and Braddons Hill House. The walls are constructed of local grey limestone rubble, with the stonework carefully laid towards the entrance of the hotel. They are notably tall, forming a terraced landscape. At the Braddons Hill House end of the walls is a blocked round-headed doorway situated below ground level. The hotel entrance is marked by square gate piers. The walls are listed for their group value.
Local climate
Retaining Walls to Belvedere House Hotel and Braddons Hill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 18 transactions since 1996
- 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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