The Lawn is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Villa. 8 related planning applications.
The Lawn
- WRENN ID
- vast-bronze-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The Lawn, Lower Woodfield Road, TQ1 2JY
- OS grid reference
- SX 925 635
- Coordinates
- 50.46209, -3.51525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lawn is a villa, dating from the 1840s, originally built as a private residence and later converted into holiday flats. The building is constructed of stucco, with a slate roof and prominent stacks featuring tall, octagonal shafts and a projecting cornice. It is designed in the Domestic Tudor style.
The villa has an irregular, roughly rectangular footprint and comprises two storeys and a basement. The front elevation has a plain parapet with a chamfered coping above a string course. The windows feature chamfered architraves and dripmoulds, arranged in an irregular 1:1:1 window pattern. A projecting two-storey porch dominates the front, with a moulded cornice to its parapet. The porch contains an ogival-arched doorway, with a moulded dripmould, housing a recessed six-panel door and a Perpendicular-style tracery fanlight above. A blind window sits above the door. A projecting stack is situated to the left of the porch, incorporating chamfered strings, a moulded cornice and several shafts. There is a single first-floor window to its left. Modern single-storey additions have been built against the stack and the ends of the front elevation. The other elevations follow a similar design.
The interior of the building has not been inspected but may retain features of historical interest. The Lawn is valued for its picturesque contribution to Torwood Gardens.
Local climate
The Lawn 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 — 66 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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