Glen Close is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1973. Villa. 5 related planning applications.
Glen Close
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-landing-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1973
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Glen Close, 1, 2, 3 and 4, Glen Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8RW
- OS grid reference
- SY 120 873
- Coordinates
- 50.67937, -3.24652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glen Close is a two-storey stuccoed villa dating to circa 1830-40, now divided into flats and subject to alterations and renovations. It has a low-pitched slate roof with wide eaves and terracotta chimney pots in a diamond pattern. The main south-facing elevation overlooks the garden, featuring a projecting central three-window section flanked by recessed bays of one window each. The central first-floor window is a four-light French casement with octagonal panes and an elliptical fanlight with radial glazing, accessed by a modern iron balcony. Other first-floor windows are recessed sash windows, also with octagonal glazing, and all have Venetian shutters. The ground floor includes a tent-roofed verandah, lowered centrally beneath the balcony, supported by octagonal columns with fanned brackets. The verandah extends across the recessed side bays, which have two-light French casements. The central section of the ground floor has two large, octagonal glazed four-light French casements. A conservatory with a canted end is located on the west side, featuring transomed octagonal glazed lights surrounding a hipped roof with a finial. The east-facing entrance front has been altered with later window openings. A Tudor-style doorway serves Flat No 1, and Flat No 2 has a tent-roofed trellis porch, likely a modern reproduction.
Local climate
Glen Close 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 23 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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