53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1973. House, restaurant. 2 related planning applications.
53, High Street
- WRENN ID
- hollow-turret-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1973
- Type
- House, restaurant
- Address
- 53, High Street, Barnstaple, EX31 1BZ
- OS grid reference
- SS 557 334
- Coordinates
- 51.08229, -4.06135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 High Street is a house that has been converted into a restaurant. It likely dates from the 16th or 17th century but was extensively remodeled in the early 19th century. The front is roughcast and is probably timber-framed, with a slated roof. The building has three storeys and features a two-window range. The late 20th-century restaurant front has upper-storey windows with moulded architraves and barred sashes, arranged in a 6 over 2 pane configuration. There is also a moulded eaves-board. The interior has only been inspected in the restaurant area, which appears to have been completely altered. A previous description from 1973 noted that during recent renovations, a timber post and plank-panel screen from the 16th century was uncovered.
Local climate
53, High 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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