Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1992. Office building. 5 related planning applications.
Council Offices
- WRENN ID
- ancient-shingle-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1992
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Council Offices, Market Street, Crediton, EX17 2BN
- OS grid reference
- SS 832 004
- Coordinates
- 50.79144, -3.6581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Council Offices in Crediton are an office building constructed around 1850 for the Downes Estate. It later served as a police station and is now used as council offices. The building is designed in the Italianate style and features Flemish bond brick with Bathstone dressings and a slate roof, along with an axial stack that has a corbelled brick shaft.
The structure is two storeys high with a symmetrical five-bay front. It has a hipped slate roof with deep eaves supported by moulded brackets and a cornice below. The ground floor showcases a stone band that rises to form moulded round-headed arches with keystones above the windows and door. The central round-headed doorway has a large fanlight and is flanked by glazed vertical panels, with a 20th-century replacement door. The round-headed windows on the ground floor are recessed beneath the stone arches, featuring gauged brick arches and are glazed with sash windows that have spoke glazing bars. The first floor has five 12-pane sash windows, each with moulded stone architraves and stone sills. The platbands extend around the returns, which also retain their original sash windows, with some original sash windows visible at the rear.
Inside, the building contains original joinery and a stick baluster stair. It is particularly significant for its group value with the 1836 buildings located in both Market Street and Parliament Street.
Local climate
Council Offices receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 5 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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