Firsleigh is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
Firsleigh
- WRENN ID
- buried-latch-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Firsleigh, Higher Warberry Road, TQ1 1RY
- OS grid reference
- SX 922 642
- Coordinates
- 50.46785, -3.51951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Firsleigh is a villa built around the 1870s, as it does not appear on the 1866 Ordnance Survey map. The building is cement-rendered with a slate roof and features stacks with rendered shafts and projecting cornices. It has a deep rectangular plan with the entrance on the east side and a service wing to the north.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical two-window front with a projecting tower on the left. The front features a gabled porch with deep verges supported by paired moulded brackets and pilasters on either side. The porch has paired pilasters and an entablature, with a dentil frieze below the cornice and blocking course. The outer doorway is round-headed and pilastered, with a moulded arch and keyblock, leading to a panelled door with a fanlight. Above the porch, there is a first-floor window with a segmental-headed, moulded, eared, shouldered architrave, glazed with a tripartite sash window featuring two-pane sashes.
The tower on the left has a deep hipped slate roof with sprocketed eaves, supported by corbelled moulded brackets. It also has round-headed first-floor windows with sill blocks, moulded architraves, and a continuous hoodmould. The garden elevation mirrors this style, featuring two deep gables and triple round-headed first-floor windows with keyblocks.
The interior has not been inspected but is reported to have a fine 19th-century interior.
Local climate
Firsleigh 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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