Gothic House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1952. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Gothic House
- WRENN ID
- upper-panel-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1952
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Gothic House, Fore Street, Totnes, TQ9 5EH
- OS grid reference
- SX 804 603
- Coordinates
- 50.43071, -3.68452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gothic House is an early 19th-century villa designed in the Gothick style, set back from the street in a courtyard. The building has three storeys and features two windows. It has a hipped Welsh slate roof with a red brick chimney stack. The exterior is made of Devonian limestone rubble with a rendered front and a slate-hung rear. Notable architectural details include a cornice and a crenellated parapet. The villa has splayed oriel window bays that extend through the first and second floors, each with three-light arched casement windows featuring Y tracery. The ground floor includes a splayed bay with three-light arched French windows, also with Y tracery. There is an arched entrance to a side passage that includes a panelled entrance door.
Local climate
Gothic House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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