Archway Bookshop is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. Bookshop. 6 related planning applications.
Archway Bookshop
- WRENN ID
- strange-plaster-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1950
- Type
- Bookshop
- Address
- Archway Bookshop, Church Street, Axminster, EX13 5AQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 296 984
- Coordinates
- 50.7811, -2.99973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Archway Bookshop is a small stone rubble building dating from around the 18th century or earlier. It has a steeply pitched tarred slate roof with gabled ends and stands two storeys high with an attic, featuring one bay. The first floor has a sash window with glazing bars, where the top panes have intersecting glazing bars. The ground floor includes a medieval moulded two-centred arch doorway, which is said to have originated from Newenham Abbey. There is a blocked carriageway with a segmental arch that has a similar sash window inserted as on the first floor. A brick chimney stack is located at the gable end, and there is a roof light in the attic. The interior does not contain any early features.
Local climate
Archway Bookshop 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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