Longcroft is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Longcroft
- WRENN ID
- fossil-rampart-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Longcroft, Higher Lincombe Road, TQ1 2EY
- OS grid reference
- SX 929 634
- Coordinates
- 50.46089, -3.50989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Longcroft is a villa that was built around the 1850s and has since been subdivided. The building is plastered with a slate roof and features stacks with rendered shafts and sunk panels. The main block is double-depth, with the entrance located on the west side, and there are service and stable blocks to the north and west.
The villa stands two storeys high and has deep eaves supported by brackets, along with an eaves band, sill band, and a moulded string. The quoins are rusticated and stuccoed. The front of the building is asymmetrical with two windows. It has a central projecting porch supported by distyle Doric columns in antis, topped with a deep entablature that includes a cornice and blocking course. To the right of the porch, there is a four-panel projecting lateral stack. The windows are fitted with moulded architraves and are glazed with 12-pane sashes. The ground-floor window on the left features a floating cornice on consoles.
According to previous descriptions, the garden elevation on the south side includes two canted bay windows and a pedimented window on the ground floor. The service wing retains small-pane sashes. The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features.
Local climate
Longcroft 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 — 8 transactions since 2003
- 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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