Russell Court is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Institutional.
Russell Court
- WRENN ID
- vacant-wicket-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Institutional
- Address
- Russell Court, Drake Road, Tavistock
- OS grid reference
- SX 478 749
- Coordinates
- 50.55422, -4.14891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Russell Court, built around 1835 by architect Gilbert Scott, was originally designed as a Union Workhouse. It features a classical style similar to other workhouses designed by Scott in Tiverton, Bideford, and Williton. The front range is one storey high and includes two projecting wings with a central archway that has a pediment. This archway is made of granite with rusticated voussoirs, while the rest of the building is finished in stucco. At the back, there is a three-storey range with an octagonal central block, where the oblique sides project slightly and have pedimented gables. The building is topped with a hipped slate roof and has a total of nineteen windows in the three-storey range, some of which retain their original twelve panes, while others have been altered.
Local climate
Russell Court 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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