Garden Steps Approximately 10 Metres East of the Drum Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Garden steps.
Garden Steps Approximately 10 Metres East of the Drum Public House
- WRENN ID
- rough-spire-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Garden steps
- OS grid reference
- SX 893 638
- Coordinates
- 50.46393, -3.56063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These garden steps, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, were built around 1934 and are located approximately 10 metres east of The Drum Public House in Torquay. Constructed from red brick with some tile, the steps descend from the forecourt of The Drum to the garden. The design features eight concave steps leading down to a circular platform with a brick pattern that includes some tiles, followed by six convex steps that continue down to the garden. There is also a corresponding flight of steps in the opposite corner, leading from the garden to a terrace by the mill pond. These garden steps are part of a particularly attractive group of listed buildings in the well-preserved village and adjacent Cockington Park.
Local climate
Garden Steps Approximately 10 Metres East of the Drum 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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