27, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1973. House.

27, Fore Street

WRENN ID
waiting-loft-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 February 1973
Type
House
Address
27, Fore Street, Northam
OS grid reference
SS 449 289
Coordinates
51.03861, -4.2135
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

27 Fore Street is a building likely dating from the early 19th century that has been altered. It is two storeys tall and features two sash windows on the first floor, which have glazing bars and a blank panel in the centre. The exterior is finished in colourwashed stucco and has a wood bracket eaves cornice. The ground floor window on the right has been altered and is now a three-light casement with glazing bars. The central entrance includes a door with Gothic glazing and a trellis porch with pointed arches. There is a narrow front garden with ornamental railings above a low wall. This building, along with number 26, forms a group.

Local climate

27, Fore Street receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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