Old Ship Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1973. Cafe. 3 related planning applications.
Old Ship Cafe
- WRENN ID
- plain-panel-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1973
- Type
- Cafe
- Address
- Old Ship Cafe, Old Fore Street, Sidmouth, EX10 8LP
- OS grid reference
- SY 126 874
- Coordinates
- 50.67976, -3.23781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Ship Cafe, located on the west side of Old Fore Street, dates back to 1633 and is a late 18th-century building. It is two storeys high and features a stucco facade. On the first floor, there are three slightly recessed sash windows with thin frames, which have later glazing. The ground floor includes both tripartite and single sash windows, with the original glazing bars still intact.
The main entrance is notable for its impressive doorcase, which is adorned with fluted Tuscan pilasters, a "Chinoiserie" fretted frieze, and a pediment. The double doors consist of six flush and fielded panels, two of which are glazed. To the right, there is a side entrance that features a marginal glazed door with a bottom panel, accompanied by thin flanking pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice above.
The listed buildings on the west side of Old Fore Street are recognized as a group.
Local climate
Old Ship Cafe receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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 — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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