40, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
40, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- solemn-lantern-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 40, Fore Street, Silverton, EX5 4HZ
- OS grid reference
- SS 956 030
- Coordinates
- 50.81743, -3.48307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 is a detached house located on Fore Street in Silverton, dating from around the 1830s. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond and features a gabled end slate roof with end stacks that have brick shafts. The house has a double-depth plan, with rooms on either side of a central entrance hall. It is two storeys high and has a symmetrical front with a three-window range. All windows are 19th-century, featuring 16-pane hornless sashes. The central doorway has panelled reveals and is set beneath a canopy supported by shaped brackets, topped with a semi-circular barred fanlight. There are also 20th-century three-light casement windows on the right-hand end elevation.
Local climate
40, Fore Street receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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