Devon County Council Welfare Centre is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1969. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Devon County Council Welfare Centre
- WRENN ID
- iron-outpost-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1969
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Devon County Council Welfare Centre, 19, Bridgetown, Totnes, TQ9 5BA
- OS grid reference
- SX 809 603
- Coordinates
- 50.43094, -3.67761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Devon County Council Welfare Centre is an earlier to mid-19th century villa. It is a double-fronted building with three storeys and four windows. The roof is covered with Welsh slate. The front elevation is stuccoed, with a rusticated ground floor. A plain band runs along the first floor, topped by a cornice and blocking course with a panelled centrepiece. The windows are recessed sash windows, and the ground floor windows are architraved with cornices. The recessed doorway is framed by pilasters supporting an entablature and features a rectangular fanlight above a half-glazed door.
Local climate
Devon County Council Welfare Centre 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.
- Sale history — 19 transactions since 1996
- 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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