Nos 45-51 (Odd) Including Screen Walls, Oubuilding and Courtyard Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villas. 2 related planning applications.
Nos 45-51 (Odd) Including Screen Walls, Oubuilding and Courtyard Wall
- WRENN ID
- secret-gargoyle-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Villas
- Address
- Nos 45-51 (Odd) Including Screen Walls, Oubuilding and Courtyard Wall, Lower Polsham Road, TQ3 2AU
- OS grid reference
- SX 890 612
- Coordinates
- 50.4403, -3.56323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of villas, screen walls, an outbuilding, and a courtyard wall dating to approximately 1830 to 1865, with later 20th-century alterations. The buildings are constructed of rendered material, with slate roofs and stacks featuring rendered shafts with platbands.
The group consists of villas arranged around a walled courtyard, extending beyond the courtyard itself, and includes a former stable block. The elevation facing Lower Polsham Road presents a three-window facade at number 49, with a courtyard wall to the right containing a central segmental-headed archway. Number 49 has what are probably 20th-century ground floor windows, a three-light casement, and a two-pane sash window above. The courtyard wall is gabled above the archway and includes a doorway to the left; modern garage doors have been inserted on the right.
The front elevation of number 49 features a projecting three-story entrance tower with eaves banding, a platband, and a moulded arched doorway with a panelled door and hoodmould. The tower is glazed with twelve-pane sashes. The bays to either side of the tower have been altered but retain some 19th-century small-pane sash windows. Number 47 is three stories high and has 19th-century small-pane sash windows and a glazed verandah across the front. A screen wall at the rear of the courtyard is gabled above a moulded archway with round-headed mouldings to the left and right, above later lean-to buildings.
The interior of the buildings was inaccessible at the time of the survey, but may contain features of interest. Group Value is attributed to the setting and architectural coherence of the various components.
Local climate
Nos 45-51 (Odd) Including Screen Walls, Oubuilding and Courtyard Wall 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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