125, Babbacombe Road is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Residential. 3 related planning applications.
125, Babbacombe Road
- WRENN ID
- silent-postern-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 125, Babbacombe Road, TQ1 3SB
- OS grid reference
- SX 926 653
- Coordinates
- 50.47805, -3.51443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, built around 1840, and subsequently divided into flats. It is located on Babbage Road, Torquay. The house is stuccoed with a slate roof, and has chimneys with stuccoed shafts and platbands. The original plan included a main two-story block and a rear service wing at a right angle.
The front elevation is asymmetrical, with three bays. It has deep eaves with a boarded soffit. The central entrance features a four-panel door and a plain overlight, above which is a tall round-headed niche on the first floor. A twelve-pane sash window is on the ground floor to the right, while the windows to the left are blind. The first-floor window to the right is a twelve-pane sash with an ornate cast-iron balcony decorated with anthemion motifs and Vitruvian scrolls. The left return, facing the garden, has central niches on both floors, as well as first-floor twelve-pane sashes with matching cast-iron balconies. Ground floor windows on this elevation are probably later. The rear wing has two first-floor twelve-pane sashes and modern ground-floor windows. The interior has been altered for conversion into flats.
Local climate
125, Babbacombe Road 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 — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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