Premises Occupied by Govier and Son is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1973. Commercial building.

Premises Occupied by Govier and Son

WRENN ID
seventh-fireplace-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1973
Type
Commercial building
Address
Premises Occupied by Govier and Son, High Street, Sidmouth
OS grid reference
SY 126 875
Coordinates
50.68086, -3.23758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The premises occupied by Govier and Son is an early 19th-century building, possibly featuring a stucco refacing and reroofing of an earlier structure. It stands two storeys high with a low-pitched gable-end slate roof, overhanging eaves, and bargeboards at the north end. The first floor has two altered casement windows. The ground floor has a modernised shop front that retains a heavy projecting frieze and cornice. This building is part of a group that includes the premises occupied by Peter Marsh, Burgoynes, and the National Westminster Bank.

Local climate

Premises Occupied by Govier and Son receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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