The Keep, Castle Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Dispensary, office. 4 related planning applications.
The Keep, Castle Chambers
- WRENN ID
- plain-banister-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Dispensary, office
- Address
- The Keep, Castle Chambers, Union Street, TQ1 4BU
- OS grid reference
- SX 911 644
- Coordinates
- 50.46974, -3.5349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Keep, Castle Chambers, is a dispensary that is currently used as offices, likely built in 1878. It is constructed from snecked local grey limestone with Bathstone dressings and has a slate roof, featuring a stack with stone shafts and moulded cornices. The building is a small structure attached to the left end of the hospital.
The exterior is single storey with an asymmetrical two-window front. A shallow wing projects at the left end, topped with a coped gable and kneelers. There is a moulded stone eaves band on the main block. To the right of the wing, there is a moulded-arched doorway with carved spandrels, and a three-light high-transomed stone-mullioned window to the right of the doorway. The wing has a similar four-light window with a relieving arch.
The interior has not been inspected but may still have interesting features. The dispensary was established to provide working people with access to medical care for a small subscription, replacing a previous system of free medical attention. By 1883, it had become self-supporting with 2,580 contributing members.
Local climate
The Keep, Castle Chambers 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 — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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