Admiral's Head is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1951. A C19 House. 2 related planning applications.
Admiral's Head
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-ledge-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Admiral's Head, 40 and 40a, Fore Street, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 6NJ
- OS grid reference
- SY 065 818
- Coordinates
- 50.6289, -3.32223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Admiral's Head is an early 19th-century house located on the south side of Fore Street in Budleigh Salterton. The building features a stuccoed exterior with a roughcast front and has a bitumenised slate roof with gabled ends and overhanging eaves. It is two storeys tall and consists of three bays. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars. The central doorway is framed by a moulded architrave with an elliptical arch and a panelled door. There is a porch supported by very thin square section columns, topped with an entablature.
Local climate
Admiral's Head 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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