79, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1969. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
79, High Street
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-keystone-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1969
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 79, High Street, Totnes, TQ9 5PB
- OS grid reference
- SX 799 604
- Coordinates
- 50.43142, -3.69101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early to mid-19th century building on the High Street, incorporating the earlier building at number 81. It is two storeys high and has two windows. The roof is hipped and covered with Welsh slate, with a plain eaves band. The first floor is slate-hung, while the ground floor is stuccoed. Number 79 features a corner shopfront with a window containing columnnettes. The former building at number 81 now has a sash window in place of its original shopfront, flanked by pilasters on quoins. A side entrance is located at the south end of the building.
Local climate
79, High Street 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- 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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