Premises of Nss Newsagent is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. Shop.

Premises of Nss Newsagent

WRENN ID
tired-attic-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1983
Type
Shop
Address
Premises of Nss Newsagent, Victoria Place, Axminster
OS grid reference
SY 297 985
Coordinates
50.78226, -2.99841
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The premises of NSS Newsagent is an early 19th-century building featuring a stuccoed façade that curves to follow the line of the street corner. It has a low-pitched slate roof with gabled ends and end pilasters adorned with incised decoration. The building stands three storeys tall and includes a six-window range with sashes that have glazing bars; most of the first-floor windows are tripartite sashes. The ground floor features a large shop front with an early 19th-century continuous fascia and cornice. To the right, there is a round-headed doorway with a fanlight that also has glazing bars.

Local climate

Premises of Nss Newsagent 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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