Cliff Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1951. House.
Cliff Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-crypt-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cliff Cottage, Roundham Road
- OS grid reference
- SX 892 590
- Coordinates
- 50.42066, -3.56049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cliff Cottage is a small house, likely built in the late 18th century. It features a plastered mass wall and a thatched roof with a plain ridge, hipped at the ends, and has a rendered shaft on the right-end stack as well as a stack at the rear left corner. The building has an L-plan layout, positioned adjacent to and above the harbour, facing away from it. The main range is single-depth and two rooms wide, with a central entrance and a rear right unheated wing at right angles.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a two-window front, which includes a 1930s enclosed porch with a hipped tiled roof and a half-glazed front door. The windows are small-pane timber casements with two lights. The interior has not been inspected but may still have interesting features, including an original roof.
Historically, this cottage is identified by Patterson as the coastguard's cottage mentioned in 1830 by Octavious Blewitt in his book 'Panorama of Torquay' published in 1831. Paintings and an 1890 photograph show a single-storey outbuilding attached to the left end of Cliff Cottage.
Local climate
Cliff Cottage 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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