South Western Electricity Board is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1978. Commercial.
South Western Electricity Board
- WRENN ID
- keen-moulding-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1978
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- South Western Electricity Board, 44, the Strand, Exmouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 000 808
- Coordinates
- 50.61905, -3.41426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Western Electricity Board building, located at 44 The Strand, dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It features a roughcast rendered facade and a tiled roof with a bracketed eaves cornice. The building stands three storeys tall and has two sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor has an altered early 19th-century shop front that retains Ionic pilasters flanking the south-western side door and modillion cornices. There is a centrally recessed shop door and a side door, both with plain rectangular fanlights.
Local climate
South Western Electricity Board receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
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