Numbers 81-87 (Old Beams Number 83 and Bakers Lodge Number 87) is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House.
Numbers 81-87 (Old Beams Number 83 and Bakers Lodge Number 87)
- WRENN ID
- spare-bastion-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 81-87 (Old Beams Number 83 and Bakers Lodge Number 87), 83 Milton Street, Higher Brixham
- OS grid reference
- SX 915 547
- Coordinates
- 50.38281, -3.52653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 81-87, also known as Old Beams (No. 83) and Bakers Lodge (No. 87), is a house that was likely a former farmhouse, now subdivided. It dates from the 17th century or earlier, with probable later additions. The building has solid rendered walls and a slated roof with varying ridge heights, hipped to the right.
On the front wall of No. 87, there is a large rendered chimney with offsets and a tapered cap topped with an added shaft, likely made of brick. To the left, partly hidden by a gabled addition, there is another rendered chimney with a tapered cap that has also been heightened. To the right, sitting on the wall top, is a third rendered chimney with a tapered cap, also heightened. The building likely follows a 3-room-and-cross-passage plan, with a lengthened lower end to the right and an added cross-wing in front of the left-hand end.
The house has two storeys and is six windows wide. No. 81 features a 2-paned sash window in each storey, positioned towards the right, with a late 20th-century half-glazed wood door to the left. No. 83 has a late 20th-century plastic door to the right, set in a partly-blocked wide opening, along with plastic-framed windows in each storey. No. 85 has a wide doorway with a plank door to the left, which appears to be shared with No. 87. It also features a late 20th-century plastic-framed window in the ground storey and two more in the upper storey. No. 87 has box-framed sashes with one upright glazing bar per sash, and two in the right-hand ground-storey window, with one window in each storey to the right and one in each storey of the cross-wing.
The interior has not been inspected, but a description from 1975 notes that No. 87 retains a through passage and part of the original roof structure, featuring through purlins and a collar to a truss that appears to be a raised cruck with crossed blades.
Local climate
Numbers 81-87 (Old Beams Number 83 and Bakers Lodge Number 87) 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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