51 and 53, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
51 and 53, King Street
- WRENN ID
- high-glass-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- 51 and 53, King Street, Brixham, TQ5 9TH
- OS grid reference
- SX 926 562
- Coordinates
- 50.39611, -3.51103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
51 and 53 King Street are a mirrored pair of houses from the early 19th century located in Lower Brixham. They feature solid rendered walls and a slated roof, with a rendered chimney on each side wall. The buildings stand three storeys high, with a garret at No. 53. Each house has one window width and paired doorways in the center, set within a single opening. The door at No. 51 is six-panelled, while the door at No. 53 is four-panelled, both having flush bottom panels. There is a combined flat hood over the doors, likely a 20th-century replacement.
In front, there are four steps made of Devonian limestone, which have been partly repaired with cement. Each house features a flat-topped, canted bay window on the ground storey; the bay at No. 53 is from the 19th century and has a moulded top cornice and sash windows, with the middle sashes each containing three upright glazing bars. The second-storey window at No. 51 has a segmental head, while the third-storey windows in both houses have barred sashes: the second storey has two over two panes at No. 51 and six over six panes in the third storey, while No. 53 has four over four panes in the third storey.
Rusticated pilaster strips run down the left side of the building and in the center, stopping above the paired doors. The eaves cornice features small, closely-set moulded brackets. There is a flat-topped dormer at No. 53, which is glazed at the front and sides. The second-storey window at No. 53 was widened in the 20th century.
Local climate
51 and 53, King Street receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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 0.2°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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