Conservative Club and Thomas Whitty House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. A C18 Commercial. 16 related planning applications.

Conservative Club and Thomas Whitty House

WRENN ID
sleeping-kitchen-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 August 1950
Type
Commercial
Address
Conservative Club and Thomas Whitty House, Silver Street, Axminster, EX13 5AH
OS grid reference
SY 296 984
Coordinates
50.7815, -2.99866
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Conservative Club and Thomas Whitty House is an 18th-century factory building that was once the Axminster Carpet Factory, established in 1755 and closed in 1835. This large dressed stone structure features a tarred slate roof with stone coping on the gable ends and is located on a corner site with a curved angle. The building stands three storeys tall and has a ten-window range. Most of the segmental arched openings contain three-light multi-pane windows with small central opening lights, although all the second-floor windows have been replaced with modern ones. The first floor has six large sash windows with glazing bars, set in segmental arch openings. There are three doorways adorned with large entablatures and Tuscan pilasters, with the center and right-hand doorways retaining their original flush panel doors. A right-hand segmental arched carriageway is also present.

Local climate

Conservative Club and Thomas Whitty House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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