20 and 22, Higher Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Terrace houses, shop. 2 related planning applications.
20 and 22, Higher Street
- WRENN ID
- stranded-cupola-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Terrace houses, shop
- Address
- 20 and 22, Higher Street, Brixham, TQ5 8HW
- OS grid reference
- SX 924 561
- Coordinates
- 50.3957, -3.51513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of early 19th-century terrace houses and a shop, built as one entity. The fronts are solid and rendered, with visible masonry markings. The roof is slate-covered, featuring perforated red ridge tiles and a large rendered chimney running along the centre of the ridge. The building is three storeys high, with a garret space above. Each house is one window wide, with doorways situated at the outer ends of the ground storey. Number 22 has a replica shop window with small panes and original flanking pilasters; its right-hand side features a three-panelled door. The windows throughout are box-framed sash windows, with each window at Number 22 having a single central glazing bar. A bracketed eaves cornice is present at Number 22, while Number 20 has a plain, late 20th-century boxed cornice. Each house also has a small dormer window; Number 20’s is pent-roofed, and Number 22’s is gabled, with a casement window made of small panes of wood.
Local climate
20 and 22, Higher 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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