Temperance Place Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Steps.

Temperance Place Steps

WRENN ID
tenth-chamber-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
Steps
Address
Temperance Place Steps, Brixham, TQ5 9TR
OS grid reference
SX 926 561
Coordinates
50.39511, -3.51201
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Temperance Place Steps is a long flight of steps that connects King Street to Mount Pleasant Road in Brixham. The steps date from the 19th century and were partly rebuilt and restored in the 1980s. They are constructed of brick and are included in the listing for their group value.

Local climate

Temperance Place Steps 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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