Royal Glen Hotel is a Grade I listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Royal Glen Hotel
- WRENN ID
- floating-fireplace-marsh
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Royal Glen Hotel, Glen Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8RW
- OS grid reference
- SY 121 872
- Coordinates
- 50.67799, -3.24455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Glen Hotel is a Grade I listed building located on Glen Road. Originally named Woolbrook Glen, it was the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and their infant daughter, Princess Victoria, during their stay in December 1819 and January 1820. The Duke of Kent passed away here.
The hotel is a two-storey stuccoed house, with a single storey at the southwest corner due to the higher ground level. It features a crenellated parapet and a garden front with four windows, which include Gothic casements, although some of the geometric pattern glazing bars have been removed. The royal arms are displayed in the center of the front.
The single-storey southwest end of the building is bowed and has Gothic French windows supported by delicate iron trellis supports beneath a tent-roofed verandah. The entrance front includes a commemorative tablet from 1897 and a well-designed Gothic porch, featuring trefoils in the spandrels of the arched openings and an iron balustrade on the parapet. The doorway has a pointed head and is surrounded by rustic posts and flintwork.
Later additions to the rear of the building are made in a sympathetic style, maintaining the crenellated parapet and featuring two-light geometrically glazed casements with thin drip moulds above.
Local climate
Royal Glen 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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