85 and 86, Boutport Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1973. A 19th century Pair of houses. 1 related planning application.
85 and 86, Boutport Street
- WRENN ID
- steep-span-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1973
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- 85 and 86, Boutport Street, Barnstaple, EX31 1SR
- OS grid reference
- SS 559 331
- Coordinates
- 51.07984, -4.05833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses with shops on the ground floor, dating from the 1830s. The buildings are plastered with a slate roof and end stacks with brick shafts. The plan is deep, with each house originally one room wide. They have three storeys and an asymmetrical 2:2-window arrangement. A moulded eaves board runs along the top.
Number 85 has a 20th-century shop front with pilasters featuring sunk panels and brackets alongside a deep fascia. Number 86 has an Edwardian shop front, with a wide recessed door to the left, a canted plate-glass shop window with a doorway to the right and an overlight, and a further door to the accommodation on the far right, above which is a blocked overlight with margin panes. One pilaster has an incised Greek key ornament. A fascia extends across the front, projecting forward over the shop window, which also has a recess for a sunblind. The first and second floors have 12-pane sashes; the first-floor sashes in number 85 have been reglazed as 6 over 1-pane sashes. Number 85 has 20th-century attic dormers.
The interior of number 85 has been gutted for shop use, but other interesting features may survive within the buildings.
Local climate
85 and 86, Boutport 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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