The Old Registry Office is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1976. Registry office.

The Old Registry Office

WRENN ID
stark-pewter-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1976
Type
Registry office
Address
The Old Registry Office, Silver Street, Axminster
OS grid reference
SY 296 984
Coordinates
50.78172, -2.99883
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Registry Office is a narrow two-storey building constructed around 1850-1860 in the Early English Gothic style. It is made of coursed stone with freestone dressings. The first floor features a tripartite moulded arch window, which has shafts and moulded capitals. On the ground floor, there are similar lancet windows flanking a central doorway, which is adorned with two orders of shafts and a moulded two-centred arch. The windows are fitted with leaded panes. Moulded string courses are present at the cill levels. The building is supported by end buttresses with set-offs and has a parapet that includes a Lombard frieze. Register Offices were established under legislation in 1836/37.

Local climate

The Old Registry Office 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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