Rockdale is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. A Georgian Residential. 1 related planning application.
Rockdale
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-steel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Rockdale, Yealmpton, PL8 2DZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 582 512
- Coordinates
- 50.34427, -3.99399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rockdale is a house dating to circa 1824. It is constructed of stuccoed stone with a low-pitched slate hipped roof featuring oversailing eaves and paired brackets to the soffit. The house has two storeys and three bays. A central pedimented gable incorporates a round-arched recess with pilasters. Pairs of pilasters are located at either end of the facade. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, set in double and recessed openings, with the centre first-floor window featuring a segmental head. The central doorway is round-headed, featuring pilasters, a cornice, and wreaths in the spandrels. Above the door is a large semi-circular fanlight, which incorporates a smaller rectangular fanlight with a diamond and foiled pane, and an anthemion motif in the frieze. The doorway is flanked by two-panel doors. A two-storey canted bay is present on the right-hand return. The interior is noted for its good contemporary design, including a vaulted hall, a geometrical staircase, moulded plasterwork, and doorcases with doorcases featuring Egyptian eared architraves. The house may have been designed by John Foulston.
Local climate
Rockdale receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 21 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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