Collingwood is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1974. A C19 Villa. 9 related planning applications.
Collingwood
- WRENN ID
- bitter-copper-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1974
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Collingwood, 38, Braddons Hill Road East, TQ1 1HB
- OS grid reference
- SX 920 637
- Coordinates
- 50.46345, -3.52254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a detached villa, likely built in the 1820s and altered in the 19th century, now used as holiday accommodation. The exterior is stuccoed with a concealed roof behind a parapet. The stacks have rendered shafts with moulded strings and cornices. The plan is double-depth, featuring two rooms facing southwest, with an entrance on the southeast return leading into a passage and a staircase to the rear. A service wing extends at a right angle to the rear.
The front elevation is symmetrical, featuring four windows. A ground-floor verandah projects over the basement level, with steps leading to a terraced garden. The ground floor has windows with moulded architraves and high transomed French windows; the first floor has two-pane plate-glass sash windows. The basement level has segmental-headed arches filled with 20th-century doors and windows. An attractive six-bay cast-iron verandah, returning for three bays, has fluted columns with capitals and pierced brackets, supporting a lean-to roof, and incorporates a mid-19th century cast-iron balustrade. Steps with later 19th-century cast-iron balustrades lead to the terrace.
The entrance elevation, with three windows, has a two-bay, single-storey projection containing a porch to the right. The porch features pilaster strips with ball finials, a moulded cornice and parapet. A six-panel door provides entrance to the porch and a round-headed window with a moulded architrave and sill blocks is alongside. Three first-floor windows and two attic windows, all with moulded architraves and late 19th or 20th-century plate glass sashes and casements, complete the elevation.
Internally, original plaster cornices, joinery, and a staircase with cast-iron panel balustrades remain. Some 20th-century alterations have been made to the plan. The house was depicted on an Ordnance Survey map from 1866 without the projecting bay on the northeast side.
Local climate
Collingwood 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 — 4 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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