Life Boat House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1974. A Victorian Boathouse. 1 related planning application.
Life Boat House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-pier-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1974
- Type
- Boathouse
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Life Boat House, Salcombe, TQ8 8LL
- OS grid reference
- SX 728 376
- Coordinates
- 50.2251, -3.78443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Life Boat House was built in 1867 and was given by Richard Durant of Sharpham. It is constructed of stone and features a slate roof. The building has shaped Dutch gable ends topped with pointed finials. An inscription acknowledging the gift is set in a pseudo-Venetian window effect located below one gable end and above the life-boat doors. There are also two small gabled dormers on the longer sides of the structure.
Local climate
Life Boat House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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