Glen Devon Hotel and Balmoral Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1990. Hotel.
Glen Devon Hotel and Balmoral Hotel
- WRENN ID
- plain-garret-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1990
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Glen Devon Hotel and Balmoral Hotel, 3, Hostle Park, Ilfracombe
- OS grid reference
- SS 520 475
- Coordinates
- 51.20766, -4.11972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Glen Devon Hotel (No.3) and the Balmoral Hotel (No.4) are a pair of semi-detached houses that have been converted into hotels. They were built in the mid-19th century and feature solid rendered walls and a slated roof, with a rendered chimney on the party wall. The buildings have single-fronted, double-depth plans and adjacent rear wings that were likely added later. They stand two storeys tall with garrets, and No.4 includes a semi-basement. Each hotel has a two-window front, with rusticated ground storeys that are finished with a stringcourse; part of the stringcourse at No.4 retains guilloche decoration.
The ground storeys feature wooden canted bay windows, with narrow round-headed windows on either side. The upper storeys also have two similar wooden bay windows. All windows are fitted with two-paned sashes, with the upper sashes in the bays having arched heads. The buildings have a deeply-projecting eaves-cornice supported by brackets at the front, and segmental-headed dormer windows, with No.3 having two-paned sashes. No.4 features a Doric entrance-porch on the right side wall. The interiors have not been inspected, and the buildings do not appear on the Ilfracombe Tithe Map of 1840.
Local climate
Glen Devon Hotel and Balmoral Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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