The Beacon is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. House. 9 related planning applications.
The Beacon
- WRENN ID
- mired-flint-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Beacon, Clifton Place, Sidmouth, EX10 8RZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 121 870
- Coordinates
- 50.67627, -3.24427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beacon is a detached house located at Clifton Place, built around 1840. It shows influences of Swiss Chalet architecture and is slightly later in construction than other houses in the area. The house features a stucco exterior, full-width gables with deep verge soffits, and wavy bargeboards. It has a thatched roof and chimneys topped with projecting crenellated coping.
Positioned at an angle to the cliff and the road, the southeast front has three storeys with two pointed windows that have diamond glazing in the casements. There is a verandah and a first-floor balcony with iron balustrades, supported by columns that extend to the gable. The southwest front, which faces the sea, has a possibly altered arrangement of windows. The first floor features a canted rectangular stucco bay with a tent roof, while the ground floor has a bowed center also topped with a tent roof. The windows here include transomed casements with diamond glazing, and the pointed heads are present on the first-floor bay windows. The entrance is located on the northeast side.
All the listed buildings in Clifton Place form a group value context.
Local climate
The Beacon 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 — 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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