Ye Olde Coffin House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House with shop.
Ye Olde Coffin House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-quartz-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- House with shop
- Address
- Ye Olde Coffin House, Temperance Place, Brixham
- OS grid reference
- SX 926 561
- Coordinates
- 50.39542, -3.51212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ye Olde Coffin House is a house with a shop, likely built in the early 19th century and remodeled in the early 20th century. The building features solid rendered walls, except for the side wall facing Temperance Place, which is made of painted stone rubble. It has a slated roof that is hipped towards King Street and rendered chimneys on the right side and rear walls, with some patches of red brick visible on the rear.
The house has a double-depth plan and a wedge shape, which is reflected in its name, with the narrow end facing King Street. It stands four storeys tall and is one window wide on the King Street front. This facade, which is the most prominent, includes a late 20th-century bow window on the ground floor, a two-storey early 20th-century canted bay window above with leaded lights and imitation timber-framing, and a two-light wood casement window on the fourth storey.
The right side wall features 20th-century wood casements and a three-paned fixed sash window on the fourth storey. The left side wall has a late 20th-century door and bow windows, along with three small older windows—one of which is blocked, while the other two have plain wood casements. The rear wall contains a single four-paned wood casement.
The front and sides of the building have a boxed gutter on shaped brackets, resembling an eaves-cornice. A late 19th-century or very early 20th-century photograph of the building, titled Ye Olde Coffin House, is displayed in the shop window, featuring W.Crocker Shaving Saloon written on a shop window with canted sides. The upper storeys are adorned with box-framed sashes that have glazing bars. The building is significant due to its location at the junction of Temperance Place and King Street, both of which have many listed buildings.
Local climate
Ye Olde Coffin House 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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