Woodlands Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Woodlands Hotel
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-column-meadow
- 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
- Woodlands Hotel, Station Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8HG
- OS grid reference
- SY 122 876
- Coordinates
- 50.68194, -3.24377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodlands Hotel is a building dating from around 1815, originally constructed as a "Cottage ornee" for Lord Gwydir. It features one and two storeys with a rough cast exterior. The building was originally thatched, but now has a mid-19th century roof covered with octagonal slates and hipped gable ends. The roof is adorned with very elaborate foliate carved ridge tiles.
The west garden front showcases three large gabled casement dormers, each with ornate and unusual carved bargeboards and finials, likely added when the slate roof was installed. The ground floor includes five Gothic French windows. The south-facing side elevation features three sash windows with pointed top panes and moulded frames, two of which have similar ornate bargeboards above small gables. There is also a similar sash window and a later rectangular bay with a glazed door on the ground floor.
The entrance front has projecting two-storey wings topped with hipped slate roofs, which also display the same ornate ridge tiles. The right-hand wing includes two gabled casements and two semi-dormers, all with ornate carved bargeboards. The ground floor features a rectangular bay with a three-light Gothic casement, a similar but blind bay with a side door, and a large sash window with Gothic glazing. The left-hand wing has one blind window and a lancet window on the first floor, both with drip moulds above. The ground floor has a rectangular bay with a five-light Gothic casement and a sash window with a pointed top light.
The main block between the wings has a two-light casement with pointed top panes and a drip mould, centrally located on the first floor. The ground floor features a three-bay plain arcade, with the entrance set back and flanked by angled side windows, which are four-centred arched sashes with intersecting glazing bars. The entrance door consists of six moulded panels and is fitted with an ornate lion head knocker. Overall, the building is very picturesque.
Local climate
Woodlands 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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