26, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1972. A Georgian House.
26, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- buried-storey-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1972
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 26, Fore Street, Kingsbridge, TQ7 1NY
- OS grid reference
- SX 734 442
- Coordinates
- 50.2845, -3.77779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 Fore Street is an 18th-century building that has been altered and stands three stories tall. The upper floors are hung with slates and feature sash windows, which now only have central glazing bars. The building has a coved eaves cornice and a hipped slate roof on the left side. The shop front, dating from the 18th or early 19th century, includes a slender entablature topped with a carved wooden panel that has a scrolled shape. This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 4 to 32 (even) and the Roman Catholic Church.
Local climate
26, 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
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