Cliff Castle and St Elmo is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1983. Residential building. 4 related planning applications.
Cliff Castle and St Elmo
- WRENN ID
- lost-lead-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1983
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- Cliff Castle and St Elmo, Castle Hill, Seaton, EX12 2QW
- OS grid reference
- SY 243 898
- Coordinates
- 50.70368, -3.07307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cliff Castle and St Elmo are a pair of mid-19th century houses, converted into flats, situated on an elevated site overlooking the sea. The building is constructed of stucco and features a castellated design. It is three storeys high with an attic and has a five-bay facade, with narrower bays on either side of three projecting bays. The projecting bays are flanked by round turrets, each with an embattled parapet featuring machicolations and cruciform arrow loops. The two right-hand recesses each have a projecting second floor with an arcaded design, intersecting glazing bars, and an embattled parapet. A doorway below is topped by a moulded round arch and a blind fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. The left-hand two-bay recess has modern balconies on the ground and first floors, with glazed panels. The left-hand bay has modern splayed bay windows. The right-hand portion of the building includes a modern mansard attic storey.
Local climate
Cliff Castle and St Elmo receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 34 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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