Devonshire Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1973. Hotel, villa. 3 related planning applications.

Devonshire Hotel

WRENN ID
wild-cloister-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1973
Type
Hotel, villa
Address
Devonshire Hotel, Park Hill Road, TQ1 2DY
OS grid reference
SX 923 630
Coordinates
50.45768, -3.51717
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Devonshire Hotel is a large villa dating from the 1840s, currently functioning as a hotel. It features extensive 20th-century additions at the rear that are not included in the listing. The building is plastered with a hipped slate roof and has stacks with rendered shafts and corbelled cornices, showcasing an Italianate style.

The plan is approximately rectangular with a projecting central entrance bay. The exterior has two storeys, with a three-storey entrance bay. It features deep eaves supported by elaborate moulded eaves brackets and a first-floor platband. The front is asymmetrical with five windows. A modern front door is recessed between window bays and is flanked by pilasters. A Doric porch with columns in antis has been removed since the 1975 listing description and replaced with an unsuitable 20th-century canopy on iron columns.

The first and second-floor windows above the door are four-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. The ground-floor sashes include one tripartite window with plain architraves featuring incised Greek key moulding and cornices on brackets. The first-floor window sashes are set in plainer embrasures, with one window having a balustraded parapet. There is a front lateral stack to the right of centre with pedimented shoulders. The interior has been partially inspected and includes a staircase with a good cast-iron balustrade.

Local climate

Devonshire Hotel 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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