The Octagon is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1983. A C19 House. 1 related planning application.
The Octagon
- WRENN ID
- deep-steeple-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Octagon, 29, Fore Street, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 6NP
- OS grid reference
- SY 066 818
- Coordinates
- 50.62924, -3.32171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Octagon is a mid-19th century stuccoed house located at right angles to Fore Street in Budleigh Salterton. It features a slate roof and an octagonal tower with a pyramidal roof at the end facing the road. The tower has tall elliptical arch recesses on alternate faces and the building stands three storeys high. The windows are sash windows without glazing bars. It is possibly built as a toll house. An external wall plaque notes that Sir John Everett Millais, a prominent artist, painted his famous picture "The Boyhood of Raleigh" while staying at this house in 1870.
Local climate
The Octagon 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 2003
- 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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