Washington House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
Washington House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-sill-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Washington House, Watcombe Beach Road, TQ1 4SH
- OS grid reference
- SX 923 673
- Coordinates
- 50.49639, -3.51944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Washington House is a villa dating from 1858, originally shown on Ordnance Survey maps as Watcombe House. The building faces east towards the sea, with its entrance on the south side. It is rectangular in plan.
The villa is plastered with a slate roof featuring lead rolls and wrought-iron finials, and rendered stacks. Deep eaves with a dentil cornice, an eaves band, and projecting strings at first-floor level are present, along with rusticated quoins. The six-window main (garden) elevation is arranged in three bays of three windows each. The three bays on the left have round-headed ground-floor windows with moulded architraves; the first-floor windows have shouldered architraves, floating cornices, and consoles to the sills, retaining their original 12-pane sashes. A two-storey canted bay is situated to the right, with round-headed ground-floor windows, moulded architraves, and stained glass above the transoms. The first-floor windows in the canted bay are 2-pane sashes with moulded architraves and sill blocks. A projecting porch with pilasters and a projecting cornice below the parapet is located in the angle with the left return, while a 20th-century conservatory has been added to the left return.
The interior has not been inspected, but it is said to retain an original staircase and plaster cornices.
Local climate
Washington 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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