Ford Street Charity is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1977. Charity building. 2 related planning applications.
Ford Street Charity
- WRENN ID
- calm-corbel-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1977
- Type
- Charity building
- Address
- Ford Street Charity, 23-26, Tavistock, PL19 8DZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 475 740
- Coordinates
- 50.54667, -4.15244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 23 to 26 on Ford Street, known as Ford Street Charity, is an 18th-century building that has been much restored. It is constructed of stone rubble and has a slate roof. The building is two storeys high, featuring a central pediment above No 24, which has three casement windows. In total, there are nine windows across the façade. The entrance has a simple doorcase with rectangular fanlights. There is also a granite tablet, which is not contemporary, inscribed with "Ford Street Charity 1762".
Local climate
Ford Street Charity 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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