Doras House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Doras House
- WRENN ID
- night-bonework-ash
- 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
- Doras House, 13, Market Street, Northam, EX39 1PW
- OS grid reference
- SS 465 304
- Coordinates
- 51.05325, -4.19147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dora’s House is an early to mid-19th century building on Market Street in Appledore, and has been altered since its original construction. It is two storeys high and built of painted brick. The building has an ornamental eaves cornice with consoles above pilasters that create window cases on the first floor, featuring two two-light sash windows with side glazing bars. The ground floor has an enriched entablature with coupled consoles above flanking pilasters constructed of splayed brick. Three ground floor sash windows are present, also with side glazing bars. The left-hand side contains an entrance with a fanlight. The listed buildings along Market Street form a visual group.
Local climate
Doras House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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