Gosforth Woodbury is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Gosforth Woodbury
- WRENN ID
- slow-tallow-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Gosforth Woodbury, Lincombe Hill Road, TQ1 2PY
- OS grid reference
- SX 930 639
- Coordinates
- 50.46539, -3.5085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Villa, dating from the 1870s. Constructed from local grey limestone rubble with a slate roof, and stucco dressings. The building is in an Italianate style. It has been divided into flats. The main block is double-depth and faces south, with a service block to the west. The north front, facing Babbacombe Road, has a 1:3-window arrangement, with the service wing on the left. Windows have stuccoed architraves, mostly with four-pane sashes and horizontal glazing bars. A shallow, projecting stack is located to the right of centre, with round-headed panels and a shaft projecting through the eaves. The first-floor window on the left side of the main block has an eared surround, and one first-floor window has been converted into a door. The right return of the main block has a gabled front on the left, featuring a two-storey canted bay. The front entrance has rectangular and canted bays, with a gabled feature over the canted bay and a round-headed doorway. The interior has not been inspected but may retain features of interest.
Local climate
Gosforth Woodbury 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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