Mermaid House and Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1977. House, shop.
Mermaid House and Stores
- WRENN ID
- bitter-terrace-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1977
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Mermaid House and Stores, the Square, Sheepwash
- OS grid reference
- SS 486 063
- Coordinates
- 50.83682, -4.15118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mermaid House and Stores is a house and shop dating from the mid-19th century. It features plastered walls, likely made of rubble, and has a hipped slate roof with brick stacks at either end, set in slightly from the eaves. The building has a double depth plan that is two rooms wide with a central stair hall.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with three windows, which are mid to late 19th century 12-pane sashes. The right side of the front is dominated by a double shop window, probably from the 19th century but altered in the 20th century, along with a glazed door. To the left of the shop window is a part-glazed door leading into the house, which has a 19th-century flat door hood above it. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Mermaid House and Stores sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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