Higher End (Part of the Home of the Good Shepherd) is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1973. House.

Higher End (Part of the Home of the Good Shepherd)

WRENN ID
fading-beam-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exeter
Constituency
Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1973
Type
House
Address
Higher End (Part of the Home of the Good Shepherd), Holloway Street
OS grid reference
SX 922 922
Coordinates
50.71957, -3.52771
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Higher End, part of the Home of the Good Shepherd, is a building from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It has three storeys and a front with five windows, featuring rusticated quoins. The building includes a half-basement and a wide Tuscan porch with steps, which has an iron balustrade that curves and ends on curtail steps. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, and there is a cornice along the top. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, with brick stacks at the ends.

Local climate

Higher End (Part of the Home of the Good Shepherd) receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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