127, Boutport Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
127, Boutport Street
- WRENN ID
- lone-zinc-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 127, Boutport Street, Barnstaple, EX31 1TD
- OS grid reference
- SS 557 335
- Coordinates
- 51.08273, -4.06116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, later used as a shop, dating from the early 19th century, with a rear wing that likely originated in the 16th or 17th century. The walls are probably brick or stone, rendered on the front, while the rear walls may be stone or cob. The rear wing has a prominent gable, clad in slate, rising above the main roofline. The front roof is slate, while the remainder is covered with corrugated asbestos. No chimneys are visible from the street. The original layout comprised two rooms at the front, with a staircase positioned at the rear of the left-hand room, and a single room in the rear wing, partially hidden behind the adjacent building at No. 128.
The building is two storeys high with a garret, and features a three-window front. A round-arched doorway is centrally located on the ground floor. All windows are 6-paned sashes, with those on the ground floor converted to fixed windows. There is a molded wooden eaves cornice, and a single gabled dormer window in the centre of the roof fitted with an 8-paned sash. The rear wing's gable features a three-light casement window with three panes per light, and plain barge-boards.
The interior, as noted in a 1988 description, includes an early 19th century wooden staircase with thin, square-section balusters. The rear wing contains an upper-floor beam from the 16th or 17th century with convex stops. There are likely to be other early features, such as fireplaces, concealed beneath plaster. The roof was rebuilt in the late 20th century.
Local climate
127, 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- 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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