61, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1952. A Medieval Commercial building.
61, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- shifting-chapel-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1952
- Type
- Commercial building
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SX 965 880
- Coordinates
- 50.68305, -3.4655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
61 Fore Street is a late medieval building located in Topsham. It is timber-framed and has a two-storey front that has recently been cement-rendered. The building features a projecting shop front with a penthouse roof, and both the shop front and the main roof are covered with tarred slates. There are two sash windows with glazing bars. The front of the building overhangs, with a yard entry below. This entry is marked by stone chamfered gate jambs that have hooks for butts. In the north wall of the entry, there is a medieval stone doorway with a pointed head. The shop window has small panes. This building is possibly the oldest remaining structure in Topsham. All the listed buildings in Fore Street are part of a group.
Local climate
61, Fore 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
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