Royal Clarence Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1953. Hotel. 12 related planning applications.
Royal Clarence Hotel
- WRENN ID
- fallow-spandrel-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1953
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Royal Clarence Hotel, Cathedral Yard, EX1 1HD
- OS grid reference
- SX 920 926
- Coordinates
- 50.7234, -3.53041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Clarence Hotel is a large building dating back to approximately 1768, originally built to provide Assembly Rooms for the city. The main front of the building is four stories tall with six windows, rendered in stucco. It has been significantly altered, including the addition of bays and the removal of glazing bars, in 1827. A large porte-cochere partially obscures a Tuscan porch, and the facade is finished with a dentil cornice.
Adjoining the hotel and now incorporated within it is an 18th-century building, formerly the Exeter Bank, which is three stories tall with three windows. This section features a semi-circular three-light attic window. The original central porch remains visible, but the front has been altered with late 19th-century iron balconies.
A section of the hotel facing Martin’s Lane dates to the 18th century and is timber-framed, rendered, and painted, with four stories and sash windows, which are largely modern. The building has a slate roof. The Royal Clarence Hotel is included for group value with the other listed buildings of Cathedral Yard and numbers 1 and 2 Deanery Place.
Local climate
Royal Clarence Hotel receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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