Stafford Book Shop is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1974. Book shop. 1 related planning application.
Stafford Book Shop
- WRENN ID
- silver-steeple-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1974
- Type
- Book shop
- Address
- Stafford Book Shop, 5, Cornhill, Ottery St. Mary, EX11 1DW
- OS grid reference
- SY 099 955
- Coordinates
- 50.75244, -3.2782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stafford Book Shop is an 18th or early 19th century building of three storeys. It has a cream-washed exterior and a hipped slate roof with an ogee bracket eaves cornice. The upper floors have three sash windows with glazing bars. The ground and first floors have three-light sash windows on the outer sides. Fluted pilasters frame the doorcase, which has a flat hood supported on shaped brackets. A rendered plinth is present at the base. The building is part of a group with numbers 2 to 6 and 11 and 12 Cornhill.
Local climate
Stafford Book Shop receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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