The Piazza is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. Art School, restaurant.
The Piazza
- WRENN ID
- errant-facade-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1985
- Type
- Art School, restaurant
- Address
- The Piazza, Braddons Hill Road West
- OS grid reference
- SX 917 638
- Coordinates
- 50.46413, -3.52645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Piazza, originally known as Salem Chapel, was built around the 1850s for Mr. Robert Stark. It was converted into the School of Science and Art in 1864 and renamed the Vivian Institute for the Promotion of Science and Art in 1878. The building was enlarged in 1887 and is currently used as a restaurant.
Constructed from Flemish bond brick with Ham Hill dressings, the building has two storeys and features a pedimented gable facing the road. The ground floor has three bays, with paired Doric pilasters supporting an entablature that includes a triglyph frieze and a projecting cornice on brackets. The first floor is adorned with paired Ionic pilasters and an entablature, topped by a dentil cornice at the pediment. The central entrance has a recessed double door with six panels on each leaf, and a stone plaque above the doorway commemorates the 1887 enlargement for the Jubilee. The outer bays have large 12-pane sash windows, while the first floor features a secondary 4-pane sash and an oculus in the gable.
The interior has not been inspected recently but was described in 1985 as having an "undistinguished hall and outbuildings at rear." Historical notes indicate that the floor contains traces of the chapel aisles.
Local climate
The Piazza 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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