Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villa. 8 related planning applications.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- cold-joist-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Rock House, Rock House Lane, TQ1 4SX
- OS grid reference
- SX 923 679
- Coordinates
- 50.50155, -3.51945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a large villa dating from the 1850s, with alterations made in the Edwardian period. The front is rendered and features a slate roof concealed behind a parapet. The parapet is embattled, with coped embrasures and merlons, and incorporates three projecting bays, the two on the left featuring two-tier canted bay windows. A moulded string runs along the first floor sill level, and a moulded cornice sits below the parapet. Most windows have dripmoulds and are high-transomed casements with glazing bars; some are small-pane sashes. A probable Edwardian projecting embattled porch features a Tudor-arched doorway. The interior retains plaster cornices and original 19th and early 20th-century joinery, including patterned white glass on the ground floor. The building has a long, rectangular plan, with the main elevation facing east. A service wing, likely later than the main block, adjoins the north end, and the entrance is on the west side.
Local climate
Rock House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 16 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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