No 12 Including Front Area Wall and Railing is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1986. Coastguard station, house.
No 12 Including Front Area Wall and Railing
- WRENN ID
- tangled-chancel-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1986
- Type
- Coastguard station, house
- Address
- No 12 Including Front Area Wall and Railing, Berry Head Road, Brixham
- OS grid reference
- SX 935 566
- Coordinates
- 50.40047, -3.49949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12, including the front area wall and railing, is a former coastguard station that has been converted into a private house. It was built around 1889 and features coursed, squared, rough-faced stone rubble with a slated roof. The building has two large stone chimneys with entablatures located behind the ridge of the front range. It is double-fronted and double-depth, with a central entrance. The front range is roofed parallel to the road, while the rear part consists of two adjacent ranges that are at right angles to the front range. The house has two storeys and is three windows wide.
There is a gabled entrance porch with flat coping and kneelers, and a plank door with a quatrefoil panel in the gable. The windows are barred sashes, with six over six panes on the ground storey and three panes in a row above. Additional features include a yard to the right with a stone front wall that matches the house. The front area has a low stone wall to the front and right, with chamfered coping and a railing with spear-head uprights. There is also a matching iron gate in the wall to the right that leads into No. 14.
Local climate
No 12 Including Front Area Wall and Railing 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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