Old Match Factory is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1974. Industrial building.
Old Match Factory
- WRENN ID
- hushed-wall-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1974
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Old Match Factory, Trew's Weir Lane
- OS grid reference
- SX 925 915
- Coordinates
- 50.71351, -3.52335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Match Factory, dated 1774, is a two-storey building made of rendered brick and features a hipped slate roof. It has metal windows, some of which are round-headed and contain small panes. This building is significant as an early example of industrial architecture.
Local climate
Old Match Factory 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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