85, Abbey Road is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
85, Abbey Road
- WRENN ID
- odd-parapet-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- 85, Abbey Road, TQ2 5NN
- OS grid reference
- SX 914 640
- Coordinates
- 50.46641, -3.53141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 85 Abbey Road is a detached house, now functioning as a hotel, built around 1850. The building features a stuccoed and blocked exterior with a slate roof that has gabled ends. It showcases a lateral stack with rendered shafts, two on each side, and is designed in the Italianate style. The house is oriented end on to the road with a double-depth layout and the entrance located on the right side.
The exterior consists of three storeys and has a symmetrical two-bay front. A pedimented gable crowns the front, complete with a moulded cornice and an oculus. There are platbands between the floors, and the bays are separated by pilasters. The windows include 12-pane horned sashes on the second and first floors, while the ground floor features sashes with a 6 over 9-pane configuration. A four-bay verandah spans the front, supported by iron columns and topped with a lapped glass roof, with trellis panels in front. The verandah wraps around to the right side, where there is one window on each return. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
85, Abbey Road 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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