6, 7 and 8, Fleet Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. A Victorian Bank.
6, 7 and 8, Fleet Street
- WRENN ID
- open-landing-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Bank
- OS grid reference
- SX 917 636
- Coordinates
- 50.4629, -3.52583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 6, 7, and 8 Fleet Street is a bank building constructed in 1889, originally serving as the Devon and Exeter Savings Bank. The front is made of Bathstone ashlar, while the rear is built of brick, topped with a slate roof featuring lead rolls and a stone chimney with a moulded cornice. The building is designed in a "very festive classical" style, according to Pevsner.
The structure is situated on a corner site, with an obtusely angled front and the entrance to the banking hall located in a canted corner bay. It stands three storeys tall with a façade that has a 4:1:2 bay arrangement. The left and right sides are accentuated with rusticated pilasters, and there is a deeply projecting dentil cornice at the second-floor level, along with a more delicate eaves dentil cornice.
On the ground floor, the bays are separated by engaged Doric columns topped with an entablature. The first floor features Ionic columns with capitals adorned with grape carvings, and the windows are complemented by balustraded parapets, eared architraves, and carved panels above the lintels. The second-floor windows are also divided by carved panels. The canted corner is rusticated on both the ground and first floors, topped with a pediment that includes foliage carving and a datestone.
The grand entrance boasts fluted Doric columns that support deep moulded brackets for a first-floor balcony, which is enclosed by a balustrade with roundels. The first-floor window has a moulded architrave and a decoratively carved cornice on brackets. The ground-floor windows were altered in the 20th century, and there is an office door in the right-hand bay within a pilastered doorcase. The first- and second-floor windows are fitted with 2-pane sash glazing.
Inside, the banking hall features a coffered ceiling adorned with egg-and-dart moulding.
Local climate
6, 7 and 8, Fleet Street receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% 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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