Former Falcon Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Public house. 1 related planning application.

Former Falcon Public House

WRENN ID
veiled-tracery-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 May 1994
Type
Public house
Address
Former Falcon Public House, 31, Abbey Road, Torquay, TQ2 5NQ
OS grid reference
SX 915 639
Coordinates
50.46556, -3.52888
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Falcon Public House is a public house built in the late 1850s or early 1860s. It features a plastered exterior and a steeply-pitched slate roof, with a left-end stack that has a brick shaft and old pots, as well as a cast-iron downpipe.

The building has a double-depth plan, consisting of one room wide with an entrance leading into a passage on the right. It is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows. To the right, there is a stout Doric porch with an entablature and a six-panel front door. On the left side, there is a large segmental-headed window for the bar, which has a moulded architrave and is glazed with a two-pane sash. The first floor features two two-pane hornless sashes. Notably, a statue of a falcon on a plinth projects through the roof at the front.

The interior has not been inspected but may contain features of interest.

Local climate

Former Falcon Public 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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