Number 20 and the Old Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1978. Town hall. 1 related planning application.
Number 20 and the Old Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- ghost-paling-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1978
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Number 20 and the Old Town Hall, High Street, Ilfracombe, EX34 9AU
- OS grid reference
- SS 518 476
- Coordinates
- 51.20869, -4.12235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former Town Hall, dating from 1861/62, now used as a shop with vacant upper floors. It is constructed of Bath stone ashlar. The building is three storeys high and has three bays, with the central bay slightly narrower. The design is Italianate in style.
The facade is articulated by two tiers of attached Doric columns, supporting imposts and cornices which break forward over the columns. A top tier of attached Ionic columns follows, with further imposts supporting a cornice and blocking course, again broken forward over the columns. The ground floor is rusticated and features three semi-circular arches for a shop, a footway, and the road. Each upper floor bay contains a round-arched, architraved sash window with four panes and no horns. Passageways run beneath the building, dividing the street from the footway with an arcade of four large and two smaller round-headed arches with plain capitals. A moulded cornice and detail for a hanging shop sign indicate that shops and windows, now blocked, once faced the footway. The rear elevation is rendered and includes two fifteen-pane windows and one tripartite window with a 4:12:4 pane arrangement and no horns. The interior of the building has not been inspected. The listed buildings in High Street form a notable group.
Local climate
Number 20 and the Old Town Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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