Shapter House is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 2000. House.

Shapter House

WRENN ID
twelfth-tallow-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exeter
Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 2000
Type
House
Address
Shapter House, 20, Higher Shapter Street
OS grid reference
SX 967 877
Coordinates
50.67998, -3.46243
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shapter House is a house built around the 1840s, likely a reconstruction of a 17th-century house. It has mass wall construction with roughcast on the ground floor and stucco on the first floor. Painted Dutch brick is visible on the left side, while the right side features red brick. The house has a slate roof and rendered chimney shafts with bands, with one round chimney pot remaining. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The house has a double depth plan and is two storeys high with an attic, featuring a three-window front. A stucco band runs between the ground and first floors. The entrance is almost central and recessed, with a six-panel door and a rectangular overlight that has one vertical glazing bar. To the left, there is an eight-pane hornless sash window, and to the right, a twelve-pane hornless sash window. On the first floor, there are three twelve-pane hornless sash windows, and a gabled attic dormer is present.

The interior has not been inspected but may have interesting features.

Local climate

Shapter House 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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