Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1993. House.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- deep-portal-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House, Berry Head Road, Brixham
- OS grid reference
- SX 930 564
- Coordinates
- 50.39838, -3.5067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a house dating from around 1840. It has a plastered exterior and a hipped slate roof, with stacks that have rendered, linked shafts featuring cornices and old pots. The building has a double depth plan, consisting of two rooms wide with a central entrance, and includes a lower-roofed block to the right that is set back from the main block.
The house is two storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-bay front with deep eaves and a platband at the first-floor level. The narrow central bay is slightly projected forward and features stacks with triple shafts that rise through the eaves. The entrance consists of a recessed two-leaf panelled front door topped with an overlight that has geometrical glazing bars. The tall ground-floor windows are adorned with proud architraves that have incised decoration, and they contain 12-pane sashes with margin panes. The two outer first-floor windows also have moulded architraves and 12-pane sashes. The left return of the building matches the style of the front. The interior has not been inspected but may still contain interesting features.
Local climate
Rock House 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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