Bedford Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Bedford Hotel
- WRENN ID
- odd-loggia-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Bedford Hotel, Plymouth Road, Tavistock, PL19 8BB
- OS grid reference
- SX 481 743
- Coordinates
- 50.54921, -4.14471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bedford Hotel, located on Plymouth Road, comprises an east end dating to circa 1725 and a west end added in the mid-19th century. The east end was originally constructed as a dwelling house by Jacob Saunders, built on the site of monastic buildings that lay south of the Cloisters of Tavistock Abbey. It is built of stone ashlar, five bays in width, and has two storeys and a basement. Around 1820, the exterior was altered to incorporate castellated parapets and mullioned and transomed windows, replacing the original 18th-century sash windows. The interior of this section retains an early 18th-century panelled dining hall and staircase. The west end, constructed in a matching style of stone ashlar with a crenellated parapet and a crenellated porch, was added by the Bedford estate when the building was converted into a hotel in the mid-19th century. This section has six bays and some slate-hanging to the rear elevation, and is three storeys high.
Local climate
Bedford Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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