Gate Piers and Gate to No 448 is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Gate. 2 related planning applications.
Gate Piers and Gate to No 448
- WRENN ID
- muffled-cloister-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- Gate Piers and Gate to No 448, Babbacombe Road, TQ1 1HW
- OS grid reference
- SX 928 638
- Coordinates
- 50.4649, -3.51045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These gate piers and gate date to the 1870s and are located on Babbage Road in Torquay. The gate piers are square in section and sit on plinths, topped with low, oversailing pyramidal caps. The gate itself is made of timber and iron. It features acorn finials on the standards, chamfered cross timbers, and diagonal braces below the middle rail. An ornamental panel of ironwork is present above the middle rail, with spikes positioned above the top rail and below the bottom rail. The composition represents a rare surviving example of its type.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Gate to No 448 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 — 13 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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