The Grove is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
The Grove
- WRENN ID
- white-stair-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Grove, Beach Road, TQ1 3LZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 931 653
- Coordinates
- 50.47805, -3.50793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grove is a house built in the 1840s, with the date of 1849 found on paintwork during renovations. It was re-planned internally and thoroughly restored externally in the 1990s. The exterior features stucco and a slate roof, with stacks that have rendered shafts, reflecting a cottage ornee style. The house has a deep rectangular central staircase plan with some rear additions.
It stands two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay front, where the outer bays are bowed and gabled. The eaves are very deep, supported by massive brackets, and there are pierced ornamental bargeboards with apex pendants. A central gabled porch showcases elaborate bargeboards and buttresses, along with a Tudor-arched doorway. The outer bays have 20th-century French windows, while the first floor features two-light 20th-century timber casements, with the central window having arched heads.
The interior has been modernized and replanned. The Grove is part of a collection of picturesque small houses located on the steep, wooded cliffside above Babbacombe beach. Prior to its renovation, the house was derelict and vandalized.
Local climate
The Grove 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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