42, South Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. House.
42, South Street
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-lancet-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 42, South Street, Great Torrington
- OS grid reference
- SS 494 190
- Coordinates
- 50.95109, -4.14499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 South Street is a late 18th century or early 19th century building that stands three stories tall with a three-window stucco front that has been colourwashed. The building features sash windows with glazing bars, where the side windows are three-light, and there are stepped voussoirs above the window heads on the ground and first floors. The central doorway is framed by engaged Tuscan columns that support a dentil and modillion entablature. The door itself is a six-panel design with sunk upper panels, an enriched radial-bar fanlight, and panelled reveals. The building also has quoins and a reeded member at the eaves cornice. All the listed buildings on South Street are part of a group.
Local climate
42, South 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- No related consent applications matched
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