Old Lifeboat House is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1989. Lifeboat house.
Old Lifeboat House
- WRENN ID
- silver-bronze-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1989
- Type
- Lifeboat house
- Address
- Old Lifeboat House, Point Car Park, Teignmouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 939 724
- Coordinates
- 50.54216, -3.49781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Lifeboat House in Teignmouth is a lifeboat house built in 1862. It features random rubble construction with red brick relieving arches on the front and rear walls, topped by a slate roof. The exterior has a 20th-century pitched roof with wide overhanging eaves on the right, creating an outshut supported by timber posts with struts. On the left, there is a similar outshut that has been filled in with random rubblestone, now serving as a shop at the front and other facilities at the rear. The front gable includes a glazed oculus with four radial glazing bars, while the rear has a small canted timber casement window supported by a moulded timber bracket. Inside, the timber-lined roof structure features strutted moulded king posts, and the walls are clad in vertical boarding. This building is an early example of a lifeboat house that has largely retained its original condition.
Local climate
Old Lifeboat House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% 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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