The Quaker House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1952. Former Quaker Meeting Room. 2 related planning applications.
The Quaker House
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-brick-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1952
- Type
- Former Quaker Meeting Room
- Address
- The Quaker House, 50, High Street, Totnes, TQ9 5SQ
- OS grid reference
- SX 800 604
- Coordinates
- 50.43149, -3.68993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Quaker House is an early 19th-century building that was refronted from an earlier structure and was formerly used as a Quaker Meeting Room. It has three storeys and features a single window. The building has a hipped Welsh slate roof and a slate-hung, timber-framed front with a plain eaves band. The first and second floors have architraved sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor includes a loggia over the pavement, supported by wooden Doric columns. Notably, the front retains a moulded stone corbel from the party wall of the earlier building. The shopfront is a good example of early 19th-century design, featuring a semi-elliptical bowed shop window with small panes, a shop doorway with a rectangular fanlight and margin lights, and a half-glazed double shop door. The interior has been altered but still retains chamfered oak ceiling beams on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Quaker 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- 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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