The Fortescue (Inn) is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1974. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
The Fortescue (Inn)
- WRENN ID
- sombre-foundation-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1974
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Fortescue (Inn), Union Street, Salcombe, TQ8 8BZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 740 391
- Coordinates
- 50.23886, -3.76711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fortescue Inn is an early 19th-century building located on Union Street. It has two storeys with a left portion featuring three windows on each floor, which have exposed frames and three-light side windows without glazing bars. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door with fielded upper panels, and there is a wood ogee bracket eaves cornice above. The right portion of the building is rough plastered and whitened, with two sash windows with exposed frames on the first floor. There are also two six-panel doors and a central ground floor window with modern leading. A hanging sign is present. To the west, there is a three-storey wing that is described under Buckley Street. The Fortescue Inn and the northwest wing on Buckley Street are part of a group.
Local climate
The Fortescue (Inn) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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