No 1 and Attached Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House, shop.

No 1 and Attached Front Railings

WRENN ID
silent-column-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
House, shop
Address
No 1 and Attached Front Railings, Park Hill Road
OS grid reference
SX 920 634
Coordinates
50.46127, -3.52161
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 1 is a house and shop located at the end of a terrace, originally built in the 1850s and now used as offices. The shop was likely added in 1864 when Torwood Street was widened, resulting in the demolition of the end house of the terrace. There have been 20th-century additions to the rear. The building is plastered with a slate roof that has a half-hipped end on the north side. It features stacks with rendered shafts and projecting cornices, including a front lateral stack with a scrolled shouldered shaft.

The house is double-depth and has a slightly bowed front, entered from Parkhill Road. The shop is a canted block added to the right end, facing Torwood Street. The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-bay east front facing Parkhill Road. It has deep eaves supported by paired moulded brackets, with bays divided by pilaster strips, a first-floor sill band, and an eaves band. The front door, located to the left, is a six-panel design with a deep overlight. The first-floor windows to the left and centre have been reglazed in their original openings, while there is a blind window to the right. The ground floor has two reglazed windows that are partly obscured by a single-storey flat-roofed addition from the 20th century.

In front of the building, there are railings enclosing a small area and bounding the path, featuring pronounced ogee finials. The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features.

Local climate

No 1 and Attached Front Railings 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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