Former Butchers Market Hall is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 2001. Market hall. 3 related planning applications.
Former Butchers Market Hall
- WRENN ID
- empty-footing-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 2001
- Type
- Market hall
- Address
- Former Butchers Market Hall, Market Road, Tavistock
- OS grid reference
- SX 482 744
- Coordinates
- 50.54989, -4.14359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Butchers' Market Hall in Tavistock was built around 1860 for the 7th Duke of Bedford. It is constructed from Hurdwick stone rubble, featuring granite and yellow brick dressings, and has slate roofs with stone-coped gables at the southeast end and a hipped roof at the northwest end. The building has a plan consisting of two parallel ranges aligned on a northwest-southeast axis, which are cranked to the east-southeast at the southeast end.
The exterior is a single storey with the southeast end facing Market Road, showcasing two bays with twin gables. It features tall vehicular entrances on the ground floor, which have yellow brick depressed two-centred arches and plank glazed doors. Above these entrances, there are similarly arched windows in the gables. The northwest elevation, which faces the Pannier Market, includes two smaller depressed two-centred arch entrances that have been infilled with shop fronts. Louvred ventilators run along the ridge of the roofs.
Inside, the space is open to braced tie-rod roofs. This building was part of a development that included the Pannier Market, Town Hall, shops on Duke Street, and the Police Station.
Local climate
Former Butchers Market Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 3 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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