The Railway Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Railway Inn
- WRENN ID
- drifting-barrel-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Railway Inn, 29 and 31, East Street, TQ2 5SD
- OS grid reference
- SX 909 644
- Coordinates
- 50.46999, -3.53869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Inn is a public house dating from the 1860s, located on East Street in Torquay. The building is constructed of stuccoed walls with a slate roof and rendered chimney shafts. It is designed in an Italianate style.
The main three-bay elevation to East Street features pilasters, with the ground floor rusticated, and a first-floor platband. Four-pane sash windows with horizontal glazing bars are present on the first floor, each with plain, eared architraves. Two round-headed doorways are centrally located, featuring pilasters, moulded architraves, key blocks and simple fanlights. A tripartite sash window is positioned on the right-hand bay, with a plain architrave. A transomed two-light bar window is located to the left, featuring a floating cornice on slender, moulded brackets. The glass is etched with 'The Railway Hotel'. A round-headed doorway is within a canted corner to the left, with pilasters, a moulded architrave and a key block, above which sits a four-pane sash window with horizontal glazing bars. The canted corner to the right features a round-headed ground-floor window with pilasters, a moulded architrave and a key block, above which sits a matching sash window. The other elevations are simpler but retain their original windows. The interior has not been inspected, but may contain features of interest.
Local climate
The Railway Inn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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