Undercliff is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House. 1 related planning application.

Undercliff

WRENN ID
quartered-bonework-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
House
Address
Undercliff, Beach Road, TQ1 3LX
OS grid reference
SX 929 653
Coordinates
50.47818, -3.50945
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Undercliff is a house dating from the 1840s, constructed with stucco and featuring a slate roof and stacks with rendered shafts. The building has an L-plan layout, with a main block that is single depth and two rooms wide, along with a projecting wing on the front left.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window front. The left wing has a gable facing the front, while the main block has a small gable on the right. There is a moulded string at the first-floor sill level. The first floor likely features secondary canted bay windows with hoodmoulds, and the ground floor has two French windows with hoodmoulds, along with a smaller window that also has a hoodmould. An open verandah supported by posts, with a glazed roof, runs across the front of the main block. There is no grand entrance; instead, a small door is located at the rear. The interior has not been inspected but is known to contain some 19th-century features.

Local climate

Undercliff 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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