5, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. Townhouse. 2 related planning applications.
5, High Street
- WRENN ID
- vacant-tallow-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- 5, High Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8HN
- OS grid reference
- SS 495 191
- Coordinates
- 50.9521, -4.14348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located on the west side of High Street, is a bank dating to circa 1830, and opened as a bank in 1834. It is a two-story building with four windows. The front is rendered in stucco and painted, with the lower story rusticated. A moulded cornice runs below the parapet and also at the level of the first floor. A round-headed doorway is situated on the right side. The first-floor windows are sash windows with central glazing bars, and feature alternating pediments supported by consoles. The building is part of a group of listed buildings along High Street.
Local climate
5, High 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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