Chandlers Cottage 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.

Chandlers Cottage

WRENN ID
stranded-groin-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
House
Address
Chandlers Cottage, 56, Higher Street, Brixham, TQ5 8HL
OS grid reference
SX 924 562
Coordinates
50.39619, -3.51407
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chandlers Cottage comprises a pair of mirrored houses dating from the early to mid-19th century. The walls are solid and rendered, with number 56 featuring a finish intended to imitate ashlar. The roofs are slate-covered, and there's a rendered chimney on the right side wall. The houses are three storeys high. The ground and second storeys have a window at each end of the front, with a shared entrance in the centre. The third storey of number 58 has two windows, while number 56 features a single window to the right, suggesting a window was previously blocked to the left. The doorways are sheltered by a flat hood supported by three shaped wooden brackets. Number 56 has a six-panelled door, with the two lower panels being flush. Number 58 incorporates a mid-19th century shop window on the ground floor, characterised by six large panes and a moulded frame with mullions. All other ground and second-storey windows are segmental-headed. A second-storey window at number 58 has 20th-century wood casements with transom lights. The remaining windows, including those in the third storey, have two-paned sashes within box frames, each with a single horizontal glazing bar. The building is finished with a deep, flat eaves cornice.

Local climate

Chandlers Cottage 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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