85 and 87, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1972. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
85 and 87, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- fallow-cellar-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1972
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 85 and 87, Fore Street, Kingsbridge, TQ7 1AB
- OS grid reference
- SX 734 444
- Coordinates
- 50.28604, -3.77774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 18th or early 19th century building comprises two properties, 85 and 87 Fore Street. It is a three-storey structure with four windows on each upper floor. The windows are flush frame sashes, now with centre glazing bars only. The roof is covered in slate, and there is an eaves cornice detailed with coupled brackets. Modern shop fronts now occupy the ground floor; at No. 85, a former wooden entablature remains, along with an opening underneath it on the left side. Properties 75 to 109 (odd numbers) and No. 115 form a group.
Local climate
85 and 87, Fore Street receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 4 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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