7, Drake Road is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Brewery. 1 related planning application.
7, Drake Road
- WRENN ID
- ruined-loggia-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Brewery
- Address
- 7, Drake Road, Tavistock, PL19 0DB
- OS grid reference
- SX 480 745
- Coordinates
- 50.5507, -4.14641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 7 Drake Road is a former brewery that likely incorporates a reused roof from Tavistock Abbey. It serves as the back range to Nos. 10-12 Market Street and is mostly hidden behind them. The building was probably constructed in the late 17th century by Nicholas Hunt, a maltster who served as Mayor in 1683 and Senior Overseer in 1704 and 1711. The elevation facing Drake Road is one storey high, while the Market Street elevation is three storeys tall and built of stone ashlar, connected by a long flight of stone steps. It features two granite archways with three-centred heads, keystones, moulded spandrels, and stop-moulded jambs. The building retains twelve impressive roof trusses with curved collars of substantial form, likely from the 16th century and salvaged from one of the Abbey buildings. In the early to mid-18th century, it functioned as a malthouse and later became part of a brewery.
Local climate
7, Drake Road 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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