1, Drake Road is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. House.
1, Drake Road
- WRENN ID
- pale-spindle-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Drake Road, Tavistock
- OS grid reference
- SX 481 745
- Coordinates
- 50.55057, -4.14542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 1 Drake Road is a building dating from around 1830. It stands three storeys high and is finished in roughcast with a slate roof. The building features three sash windows; the first-floor windows have glazing bars, a cornice, and console brackets, while the ground-floor windows are fitted with shutters. The central entrance is framed by a doorcase that includes a cornice, pilasters, a lamp with a bracket, and panelled reveals. The door itself is a six-panelled design, with the top two panels cut away and glazed.
Local climate
1, Drake Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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