Liberal Club is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1983. Clubhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Liberal Club
- WRENN ID
- third-gable-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1983
- Type
- Clubhouse
- Address
- Liberal Club, 7, Market Street, Newton Abbot, TQ12 2RJ
- OS grid reference
- SX 858 713
- Coordinates
- 50.53069, -3.61263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Liberal Club is a purpose-built club house located on Market Street in Newton Abbot, dating from 1913. It features incised stucco with painted freestone dressings and has a hipped slate roof with a moulded stack at the rear of the left side. Designed in the Italianate style, resembling a Venetian Palazzo, the building has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with a symmetrical five-window range.
The exterior is characterized by an elaborate returned modillion cornice with an egg-and-dart frieze, and moulded lintel strings on each floor. The second floor has plate-glass sash windows, while the first floor features cross windows. The terminal windows on the first floor are adorned with cartouche-scroll friezes and cornices created by the stepped-forward lintel string. The piano nobile has three cross windows behind a triple arcade supported by paired Ionic columns on a stone balustrade, with the center window stepped forward on brackets. The ground floor showcases banded rustication, with a hood on large moulded brackets above double three-panel doors and a three-pane overlight to the left. The separate office to the right has a tripartite plate-glass sash window and a half-glazed door with a three-pane overlight. The interior has not been inspected, but the facade is noted for being distinguished yet remarkably conservative for its time.
Local climate
Liberal Club receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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