53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1994. Shop with accommodation.
53, High Street
- WRENN ID
- keen-pewter-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1994
- Type
- Shop with accommodation
- Address
- 53, High Street, Ilfracombe
- OS grid reference
- SS 516 474
- Coordinates
- 51.20723, -4.12517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 High Street is a shop with accommodation above, dating from the early 19th century. The building has a rendered, solid front wall and a tarred, slated roof, with a red brick chimney on the left gable wall. It stands three storeys high, plus a garret, and features a plain, two-window front. The ground storey has a late 20th-century shopfront, while the upper storey windows are 6-paned sashes, except for a blind window to the right on the third storey. There is a lightly moulded board below the eaves, and a dormer with a slightly curved top that has 6-paned sashes at the front, with the sides also glazed with four lights each. The rendered rear wall, which can be seen from the side alley to the right, includes a good canted bay window made of wood on the second storey, and a sash window with one upright glazing bar per sash on the third storey. The rear section of the left-hand side wall, visible from the side alley to the left, is slate hung. The interior has not been inspected. This house is part of a listed group that includes Nos. 51 and 52 High Street.
Local climate
53, High 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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