23, Lower Polsham Road is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House.
23, Lower Polsham Road
- WRENN ID
- secret-cobalt-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SX 890 612
- Coordinates
- 50.44029, -3.56441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 23 Lower Polsham Road is a house dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It has a rendered exterior and a slate roof that is hipped at the right end, with a rendered stack on the left. The building features a double-depth main block that is one room wide, with an entrance located at the right end. It stands two storeys tall and has a symmetrical one-bay front with deep boxed eaves. There is a single-storey porch block with a flat roof that is set back at the right end. The ground floor has one window, which is a late 18th century or early 19th century sixteen-pane sash with margin panes. The first-floor window is a later four-pane horned sash with Venetian shutters. The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features. The house has group value with Nos. 25 and 27, which are of a similar age and have comparable glazing.
Local climate
23, Lower Polsham Road 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
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- 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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