The Prince Albert Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 2000. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Prince Albert Inn
- WRENN ID
- outer-floor-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2000
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Prince Albert Inn, 53 and 54, Cowick Street, EX4 1AP
- OS grid reference
- SX 912 918
- Coordinates
- 50.71595, -3.54198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Prince Albert Inn is an early 18th century house and public house, with later alterations. It is built using a pebbledashed mass wall construction, with a slate roof, red brick chimney shafts featuring cornices and round terracotta chimney pots, and cast iron rainwater goods. The building has a deep rectangular plan, with No. 53 likely being one room wide and the Prince Albert double the width. Rear blocks are present. Rooms are heated by end-right and rear lateral chimney stacks.
The exterior is two storeys high, with deep eaves and an eavesband. No. 53 has an asymmetrical front with two windows. A round-headed entrance is on the right, featuring stucco pilasters and a keyblock, leading to a recessed six-panel door and an unadorned fanlight. The windows are hornless sash windows with glazing arranged as 2 over 2 panes. The Prince Albert section has an asymmetrical four-window front, with the windows set at a lower level than those of No. 52. An entrance is on the left, with a 20th century door, and three high-transomed windows with vertical glazing bars above the transom are to the right. A fascia with a cornice runs between the ground and first floors. Horned 2 over 2-pane sash windows are at the first floor. Two flat-roofed, two-light attic dormers are also present. The right return of the main range has a 20th century window at ground floor right, a 16-pane hornless sash window extending to attic level, and a four-pane window to the attic right. The right return continues with the sides of the back blocks. A small hornless sash is located at ground floor left, and boxed, horned sashes are present at the first floor left and a boxed 12-pane hornless sash at the first floor right. The remaining parts of the back blocks have no windows on this elevation.
The interior was not inspected, but it may retain features of interest and an early roof. The pub was once known as the Lamb & Flag.
Local climate
The Prince Albert Inn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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