No 4 and Attached Walls and Piers to Front Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House. 2 related planning applications.

No 4 and Attached Walls and Piers to Front Garden

WRENN ID
stony-screen-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
House
Address
No 4 and Attached Walls and Piers to Front Garden, Lower Polsham Road, TQ3 2AB
OS grid reference
SX 888 612
Coordinates
50.44059, -3.5664
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A house with attached garden walls and piers, dating from circa 1850. The house is constructed of stuccoed and blocked-out materials, with a natural slate roof featuring gabled ends and end stacks with rendered shafts and platbands. It is slightly set back from and above the road.

The house has an asymmetrical three-bay front with deep boxed eaves. A decorative, late 19th- or early 20th-century enclosed verandah extends across the front with a lean-to glazed roof and dentil frieze below a bracketed cornice. The central entrance features a half-glazed door with margin panes and stained glass, with a further five bays of the verandah to the right, similarly glazed. One verandah bay has been incorporated into the house, and the bay to the left is open with a segmental head. A further bay to the left of the main entrance is glazed with paired two-pane sashes.

The first floor of the front elevation features a round-headed blind recess with a moulded arch and keyblock, flanked by 19th-century twelve-pane sashes. There is also a probable original gabled attic dormer in the centre, containing a two-light timber casement with six panes to each light.

The front garden is enclosed by local red breccia rubble garden walls with square piers topped with pyramidal caps.

The interior of the house reportedly retains original features, including late 19th-century tiling to the verandah floor, original chimney-pieces, a stick baluster staircase, and original joinery, although it has not been inspected.

Local climate

No 4 and Attached Walls and Piers to Front Garden 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
  • 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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