Old Watch House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Watch House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-mantel-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Watch House, Salcombe, TQ8 8JE
- OS grid reference
- SX 741 388
- Coordinates
- 50.23609, -3.76661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Watch House is a building likely from the 18th century. It is four storeys high and constructed of stone, featuring casement windows. The layout typically consists of one room on each floor, connected by winding stairs. It is believed to have been a former coastguard's house, with reused beams and portholes. The Old Watch House is part of a group that includes The Ferry Inn, Orestone Steps, Ferry Cottage, and also Nos 39 to 41 (consecutive) and Little End on Fore Street.
Local climate
Old Watch 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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