Bedford Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Bedford Hotel
- WRENN ID
- muted-merlon-briar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Bedford Hotel, the Esplanade, Sidmouth, EX10 8NR
- OS grid reference
- SY 125 872
- Coordinates
- 50.67793, -3.23974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bedford Hotel, located on The Esplanade, is a building dating from around 1810. Originally, it served as John Wallis's Library and Reading Rooms, a popular meeting place of its time. The hotel was enlarged between 1815 and 1840, with later additions to the Esplanade front. It stands three stories tall, with a stucco façade and a low-pitched hipped slate roof featuring overhanging eaves.
On the Esplanade front, the original section has three windows, while the later second floor features modern casements and a bracketed iron balcony supported by brackets extending to the eaves. The first floor has three windows, with the outer ones being sash windows and a central set of French windows, all with drip moulds above leading to a crenellated terrace. The ground floor is built out and glazed. To the east, there are stepped projecting bays with two-light mullioned and transomed windows, also with drip moulds above. The first floor of the easternmost bay includes a tent-roofed trellis balcony, likely a modern replacement.
The west front showcases a well-designed stucco-faced elevation with three windows. The second floor has three low casements, while the first floor features French windows and balconies with restored tent-shaped canopies. The central window on this front is a canted bay with a balcony that wraps around it.
The Bedford Hotel is part of a group with the Sussex Hotel located on Station Road.
Local climate
Bedford Hotel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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