8, Lower Polsham Road is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House.
8, Lower Polsham Road
- WRENN ID
- keen-foundation-azure
- 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 888 612
- Coordinates
- 50.44065, -3.56609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house located at 8 Lower Polsham Road, dating from around 1850. It has a stuccoed exterior and a hipped slate roof, with chimney stacks that have rendered shafts—one featuring a platband and the other a projecting cornice. The building consists of two overlapping blocks, with the rear block raised by one storey in the later 19th century. It is slightly set back from the road and has two to three storeys with an asymmetrical three-bay front. The deep eaves are supported by moulded brackets.
On the ground floor, there is a high-transomed French window to the left with glazing bars, and to the right, a 12-pane sash window. The first floor features three 12-pane sashes, all with horns. There is a tented porch hood at the angle between the blocks on the right side, which covers a recessed panelled front door. The taller block at the rear has plate-glass horned sashes and one small pane sash on the right side. The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features.
Local climate
8, 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 2005
- No related consent applications matched
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