Shebbear College Eastern Range (Former Printing Works) is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. College building.
Shebbear College Eastern Range (Former Printing Works)
- WRENN ID
- hidden-solder-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- College building
- OS grid reference
- SS 449 094
- Coordinates
- 50.86408, -4.204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shebbear College Eastern Range, formerly the printing works, is a college building that is believed to date back to the time of the Bible Christian training college founded on the site in 1841. The building features rendered walls and a gable-ended slate roof. It has an L-shaped plan, with a single-storey range that adjoins the road to the northeast and a larger two-storey block at right angles to the southwest.
The front range is two storeys high, while the rear wing is single storey. The two-storey range has an asymmetrical front with three windows, featuring early 20th-century 16-pane sashes and two possibly original Venetian windows below. There is a round-arched doorway at the left end, and to the right, wooden steps from the 20th century lead to a first-floor doorway. The right end wall has a large Venetian window on the first floor and a probably contemporary tripartite sash window below. The single-storey wing behind the right-hand end has four original 12-pane sash windows on its outer face, which include Gothic glazing. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Shebbear College Eastern Range (Former Printing Works) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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