No 42 Northernhay Street is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 2000. Town house.
No 42 Northernhay Street
- WRENN ID
- first-flue-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2000
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- No 42 Northernhay Street, EX4 3ER
- OS grid reference
- SX 918 927
- Coordinates
- 50.72449, -3.53408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 42 Northernhay Street is a town house built in the early 19th century. It features mass wall construction that is painted, stuccoed, and blocked out, with the left side being painted and roughcast. The building has a brick chimney shaft with a platband and two ceramic chimneypots, topped by a slated gabled roof.
The layout includes one room deep and two rooms wide, with a central main entrance. The rooms are heated by a stack on the left side, while there are no remaining rooms on the right. The exterior presents a symmetrical, three-bay front and rises three storeys high, plus a basement. The entrance features a six-fielded panel door set within a doorcase that has fielded panel reveals, along with a rectangular overlight that has two vertical glazing bars. The building has hornless early 19th-century sashes throughout, with twelve-pane sash windows on either side of the door. The first floor has three twelve-pane sash windows, while the second floor has three six-pane sash windows. The basement includes a 20th-century light on the right side of the front elevation. The left side has a 20th-century window on the ground floor right and a two-light casement window on the second floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
No 42 Northernhay Street 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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- Sale history — 29 transactions since 1995
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- 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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