Off-Shore Sea Chest is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1974. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
Off-Shore Sea Chest
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-cellar-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Off-Shore Sea Chest, Union Street, Salcombe, TQ8 8BZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 740 391
- Coordinates
- 50.23872, -3.76696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century two-storey stone building with lime rendering. It features brick flat arches above the windows, with four windows on the first floor, including two sash windows retaining their glazing bars. The ground-floor windows largely contain sheet glass for display purposes. There are two plain doors at ground level. The building forms a group with numbers 1 Fore Street, Unity Buildings, Union Street, and the Custom House at Custom House Quay.
Local climate
Off-Shore Sea Chest sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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