8, Broad Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1973. A C18 End of terrace house.
8, Broad Street
- WRENN ID
- final-granite-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1973
- Type
- End of terrace house
- Address
- 8, Broad Street, Ilfracombe
- OS grid reference
- SS 522 477
- Coordinates
- 51.21, -4.11618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Broad Street is an end-of-terrace house with a later shop, dating from the 18th century and featuring later alterations. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and has a slate roof that is hipped at the corner, along with dormers. It has facades facing both Broad Street and Hierns Lane, and consists of three storeys plus an attic.
On Broad Street, there is one window, while the Hierns Lane side has two windows. The Broad Street facade includes an altered 19th-century shopfront with pilasters. The first floor features a hornless sash window, and the second floor has a casement window. The eaves are adorned with a coved cornice. The Hierns Lane facade has a 12-pane hornless sash window on the ground floor, a similar sash window on the first floor with a casement to the right, and a sliding casement along with a casement to the right on the second floor. The interior has not been inspected.
No. 8 Broad Street is part of a group that includes the Royal Britannia Hotel, Nos. 3 and 4, and Nos. 8-12 (consecutive) Broad Street, as well as Nos. 1 and 2 The Strand.
Local climate
8, Broad Street 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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