26 and 27, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. House with shop. 6 related planning applications.
26 and 27, High Street
- WRENN ID
- pale-vestry-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- House with shop
- Address
- 26 and 27, High Street, Barnstaple, EX31 1BL
- OS grid reference
- SS 557 332
- Coordinates
- 51.0802, -4.06003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 and 27 High Street is a house with a later shop on the ground floor, dating from around the 1860s. The rear block, which is attached to Nos 1 and 2 Butchers' Row, may be older and contemporary with Butchers' Row. The building is finished in stucco and features slate roofs, with the rear block having a flat roof. The rear stack has a brick shaft and a yellow chimney pot topped with scalloped cresting.
Situated on an important corner site between High Street and Butchers' Row, the building has a canted corner. It is designed in a T-plan layout with a rear centre wing and a block behind Butchers' Row, forming an angle between the rear wing and the main block. The structure stands three storeys tall, with a 1:3-window arrangement facing High Street and a 2:4-window arrangement on Butchers' Row.
Notable architectural features include a deep projecting eaves cornice supported by moulded brackets, an eaves band, and a platband at the second-floor cill level. The windows are adorned with moulded architraves, and the second-floor windows have moulded cill blocks. The shop front boasts a dentil cornice and plate-glass windows flanked by panelled pilasters, with a 20th-century shopfront to the right.
The first-floor windows are primarily glazed with 2 over 2-pane sashes featuring margin panes, except for the left-hand bay, which has a tripartite sash with a more elaborate architrave and a floating cornice on consoles, topped with a semicircular pediment over the centre. The first-floor windows are one over one-pane sashes with margin panes, except for the left bay, which is tripartite. The canted corner and the four bays of the Butchers' Row elevation display similar details and window styles. To the left, there is a slightly set-back block with a two-bay front to Butchers' Row, which includes a second-floor platband and similar windows, with the first-floor windows featuring keyblocks. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
26 and 27, High Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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