53 AND 53A, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1952. Merchant's house. 1 related planning application.
53 AND 53A, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- far-crypt-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1952
- Type
- Merchant's house
- Address
- 53 AND 53A, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information), Totnes, TQ9 5NP
- OS grid reference
- SX 800 604
- Coordinates
- 50.43175, -3.68978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 53 and 53A on High Street is a merchant's house dating from the 16th or 17th century, designed in the "deux corps de batiments" style. It was later remodeled in the 18th century and has undergone modern alterations, but it still retains the former kitchen block, which is now part of a ruin house. The building features a Welsh slate roof with rendered stacks and a gabled, timber-framed front that has moulded strings at the second floor and attic. The exterior is slate-hung, and there are mid-19th century sash windows on the first floor, with strings that break forward to form cornices. The ground floor has a loggia over the pavement supported by ashlar piers on quoins and modern wooden pillars that carry an entablature. Inside, there is a later 18th century staircase leading to the upper floors, featuring a closed string, turned balusters, and square newels. A rear first floor room includes an 18th century mantle on the chimneypiece.
Local climate
53 AND 53A, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information) 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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