196, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1953. A Early Modern Commercial, shopfront. 1 related planning application.

196, High Street

WRENN ID
weathered-string-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exeter
Constituency
Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1953
Type
Commercial, shopfront
Period
Early Modern
OS grid reference
SX 919 926
Coordinates
50.7231, -3.53222
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 196 on High Street is a building with a front dating from the 18th century, although it is much altered and modernized, and it stands on a 16th-century structure. The exterior features a stucco front, is four storeys high, and has two sash windows with glazing bars. The shopfront has been modernized. Inside, there is a room at the back, now part of a showroom, which contains a late 16th-century fireplace. This fireplace has a plaster overmantel featuring the Royal Arms and is flanked by caryatid figures. Nearby, there is a four-light oak window with mullions and transoms, which retains good original casement catches. The building was gutted in 1973. Nos 192 to 203 form a group with this property.

Local climate

196, High 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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