No 2 Including Short Retaining Wall Abutting Left Side Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House.
No 2 Including Short Retaining Wall Abutting Left Side Wall
- WRENN ID
- deep-foundation-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SX 923 561
- Coordinates
- 50.3954, -3.51552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 is a house located on Church Street in Lower Brixham, dating from the mid-19th century. It features solid rendered walls and a slated roof that is hipped to the left. There is a rendered chimney on the right side wall, which is likely shared with the neighboring No. 4. The building has three storeys, with a basement that is exposed to Church Hill East at the rear due to the sloping ground.
The house is two windows wide, with the doorway positioned where the left-hand ground-storey window would typically be. The third storey has a centrally placed round-arched window that rises through the eaves into a triangular dormer-gable. All windows are fitted with 4-paned sashes. A deep, flat eaves-cornice extends around the dormer-gable.
Attached to the front wall is a street sign that reads 'CHURCH STREET' in blue and white glazed tiles. The left side wall has no openings, and adjacent to it is a small triangular space featuring a short retaining wall on the south-east side, where Church Hill East is at a lower level. This retaining wall is constructed of stone rubble topped with large slabs of Devonian limestone. The rear wall, facing Church Hill East, includes a window with 4-paned sashes in the basement, ground, and second storeys, along with a 6-paned wood casement window to the right of the ground and second storeys.
Local climate
No 2 Including Short Retaining Wall Abutting Left Side Wall receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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