Lifeboat House with Slipway on Foreshore is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. Lifeboat house.
Lifeboat House with Slipway on Foreshore
- WRENN ID
- carved-rafter-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1989
- Type
- Lifeboat house
- Address
- Lifeboat House with Slipway on Foreshore, Clovelly
- OS grid reference
- SS 318 248
- Coordinates
- 50.99835, -4.39753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lifeboat house with slipway, built around 1870, is located on the foreshore at Clovelly. It is constructed from coursed rubble with freestone dressings and features a slate gabled roof with coped verges and copings on the parapets at the sides. The slipway is made of large, roughly-hewn rubble blocks. The building has a rectangular plan with a large door opening in the gable end facing the sea, leading to an inclined slipway that descends into the harbour, visible above the waterline at low tide. On the seaward side, there are a pair of 20th-century iron-clad sliding doors on runners, which have altered the original opening to accommodate a larger lifeboat. Above the doors, there is a bullseye window with four panes and a central roundel. The interior has not been inspected. The building no longer houses the current lifeboat, which is now moored in Bideford Bay.
Local climate
Lifeboat House with Slipway on Foreshore sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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