157 and 159, Magdalen Road is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
157 and 159, Magdalen Road
- WRENN ID
- drifting-cloister-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 157 and 159, Magdalen Road, EX2 4TT
- OS grid reference
- SX 933 924
- Coordinates
- 50.722, -3.5116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two houses, dating circa 1810. They are three storeys high and built of stucco, with prominent quoin pilasters. The front doors are set within Greek Doric doorcases and feature six-panel doors with fanlights above. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, except for those on the ground floor. Number 159 has a later addition of a balcony and a fire escape. The roofs are slate. The houses are similar in appearance to numbers 151-155 on the same street. Numbers 143 to 163 (odd numbers) and the front wall of number 147 form a group.
Local climate
157 and 159, Magdalen Road 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 — 3 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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