Bedford Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Chambers. 4 related planning applications.

Bedford Chambers

WRENN ID
dusk-moat-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1983
Type
Chambers
Address
Bedford Chambers, Abbey Place, Tavistock, PL19 0AD
OS grid reference
SX 481 743
Coordinates
50.54933, -4.1444
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bedford Chambers is an early 19th-century building located on Abbey Place. It is a single-storey structure with a stuccoed exterior and features a hipped slate roof topped with clustered chimneystacks. The building has a crenellated parapet and includes two casement windows with hood moulding. The central entrance is framed by a doorcase that has a square fanlight above it.

Local climate

Bedford Chambers 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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