Markwell House 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.
Markwell House
- WRENN ID
- stony-pediment-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Markwell House, 6, Lower Shapter Street, EX3 0AT
- OS grid reference
- SX 967 876
- Coordinates
- 50.67971, -3.46213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Markwell House is an early 18th-century building in Lower Shapter Street, Topsham, altered in the 19th century. It is a three-storey, three-window structure rendered in a smooth finish. The windows are 19th-century sash windows, and there is a projecting bay. A prominent Tuscan doorcase features fluted pilasters and a pediment, sheltering a six-panel door with fielded panels to the reveals. The building has a coved cornice and a tarred slate roof. Markwell House is part of a group of listed buildings along Lower Shapter Street.
Local climate
Markwell 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- 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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