56, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1969. Merchant's house. 2 related planning applications.
56, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- hushed-soffit-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1969
- Type
- Merchant's house
- Address
- 56, Fore Street, Totnes, TQ9 5RU
- OS grid reference
- SX 803 603
- Coordinates
- 50.43113, -3.68599
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
56 Fore Street is a later 16th century or early 17th century merchant's house of the "deux corps de batiments" type. It retains its gallery, and the former back block is now No 1 Atherton Lane. The building was rebuilt in the early 19th century, extending over Atherton Lane at the first floor level. It has three storeys and two windows, featuring a Welsh slate roof with red brick stacks. The masonry party wall is corbelled at the first floor level for the former jetty. The front is plastered timber framed with a first floor jetty. The first and second floors have architraved sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor has a modern shop window and doorway, while the former architraved house doorway has been converted for use as a window.
Local climate
56, Fore Street receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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