472 and 474, Babbacombe Road is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villa.
472 and 474, Babbacombe Road
- WRENN ID
- standing-sentry-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- SX 926 637
- Coordinates
- 50.46417, -3.51331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
472 and 474 Babbacombe Road are a pair of villas built between 1845 and 1855. They have a plastered exterior and a slate roof that is gabled at both ends, with an axial stack featuring a rendered shaft. The villas are rectangular in shape with entrances at the ends.
The buildings are two storeys tall and have deep eaves supported by paired moulded eaves brackets. The left and right corners are accentuated with rusticated quoins, and there is an eaves band along the top. The front is symmetrical with four windows, all featuring moulded architraves and 12-pane sash glazing. The right gable end is designed to resemble a pediment. There is a 20th-century gabled porch, which includes one 12-pane sash window on the first floor and one on the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected but may still have interesting features.
Local climate
472 and 474, Babbacombe 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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