Royal Exchange Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

Royal Exchange Public House

WRENN ID
unlit-soffit-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1988
Type
Public house
Address
Royal Exchange Public House, 12, Joy Street, Barnstaple, EX31 1BS
OS grid reference
SS 558 333
Coordinates
51.08111, -4.05905
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Exchange Public House is a public house located on Joy Street in Barnstaple. It dates from the mid-19th century, or possibly earlier. The building features a painted brick front in Flemish bond and has a tarred, slated roof. An old red brick chimney, which has been heightened or rebuilt in old red brick, is present.

The structure is two storeys high and has a three-window range. The ground storey is arranged in four bays that are flanked and separated by pilaster strips, which support an entablature with an enriched cornice. The three left-hand bays have plain windows with sunk panels below them. The right-hand bay contains two doors: the bar door on the left has a sunk panel below and a glazed panel above, with the glass inscribed "BAR" and "WINES AND SPIRITS." The left-hand door leads to the lounge and skittle alley and features two upright glazing bars forming margin panes, with a sunk panel in the centre that may have been a former window, accented by projecting bricks forming a shaped head. The building is topped with a modillioned eaves cornice. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Royal Exchange Public House 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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