Riviera Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.

Riviera Hotel

WRENN ID
silver-chimney-dust
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
Riviera Hotel, the Esplanade, Sidmouth, EX10 8AZ
OS grid reference
SY 125 872
Coordinates
50.67807, -3.23952
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Riviera Hotel, built around 1820, was originally a terrace of three-storey houses known as Marine Place. An additional storey has since been added. The building is faced with stucco and features a bracketed cornice that runs across the front, along with a parapet that has coping. There is a sill course at the second floor and a plinth at the base. The hotel has four three-storey bows, each with tripartite sash windows, and panelled pilasters that extend down into aprons. The bow at the east end is larger than the others. Between each bow, there is one sash window set in a moulded flush frame. A large bowed glazed entrance porch has been added, which is supported by pilasters and features a cornice and parapet.

Local climate

Riviera 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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  • 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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