28, South Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. Residential building.
28, South Street
- WRENN ID
- standing-pilaster-stoat
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- 28, South Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8AA
- OS grid reference
- SS 495 190
- Coordinates
- 50.9513, -4.14392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
28 South Street is a two-storey building dating from 1735, featuring a five-window red brick front. It has a string course and a heavy eaves cornice supported by brackets. The roof includes three pedimented dormers, with the central one being segmental. An original lead down-pipe is adorned with an enriched rain-water head that displays the initials "CGM" and the date. The building has sash windows, and the doorway is topped with a shell hood on modillion brackets. The underside of the hood showcases fine plaster work, including a central cartouche surrounded by grouped weapons. This house is nearly identical to No 28 Bridgeland Street in Bideford, which is attributed to Nathaniel Gascoyne and dates to 1695, although the Bideford example has lost its original doorway.
Inside, the ground floor features a panelled front room with an exceptionally fine ceiling, which includes a round central panel depicting a group of musical instruments in high relief, similar to the ceiling at Denham Place in Buckinghamshire from around 1693. The rest of the interior has been altered.
All the listed buildings in South Street form a group.
Local climate
28, 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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