Setting Sun Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. Restaurant. 1 related planning application.
Setting Sun Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- low-keystone-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- Setting Sun Restaurant, 24, Corn Market Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8EY
- OS grid reference
- SS 496 191
- Coordinates
- 50.95189, -4.14203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Setting Sun Restaurant, located at 24 Corn Market Street, is an early 17th-century building that has been altered. It is two stories high and rendered in stucco. The ground floor now features a restaurant window and a wide entrance on the right-hand side, leading to an early 18th-century six-panel door. This door has sunken upper panels and a flat canopy. Inside, the entrance corridor retains early 17th-century ovolo moulded post and plank panelling. The building forms a group with numbers 6 and 9 on Corn Market Street.
Local climate
Setting Sun Restaurant 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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