Mount Pleasant is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. A C19 Villa.
Mount Pleasant
- WRENN ID
- muted-alcove-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1978
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Mount Pleasant, Cistern Street, Totnes
- OS grid reference
- SX 798 602
- Coordinates
- 50.42961, -3.69287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Pleasant is an early 19th-century villa that stands three storeys tall. It features a double front with three windows and has a hipped Welsh slate roof, complemented by rendered stacks and swept verges. The front of the building is rendered, and it has a coved eaves cornice. The windows are recessed sash types with exposed boxing and glazing bars, while the ground floor includes bay windows. A glazed portico with a cornice adds to the villa's architectural appeal.
Local climate
Mount Pleasant 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings