Range of Buildings to South of Abbot's Tower, Buckfast Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1983. Range of buildings.
Range of Buildings to South of Abbot's Tower, Buckfast Abbey
- WRENN ID
- empty-pedestal-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1983
- Type
- Range of buildings
- Address
- Range of Buildings to South of Abbot's Tower, Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast Road, Buckfastleigh, Teignbridge
- OS grid reference
- SX 741 673
- Coordinates
- 50.49216, -3.77595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The range of buildings to the south of Abbot's Tower at Buckfast Abbey dates from around 1800 and has undergone 20th-century alterations. The buildings are cement-rendered with a slate roof that has gables at both ends. There is a rendered shaft on the right end stack, a platband, and an old pot, along with an axial stack to the left of center and a rear lateral stack. The layout is single-depth with a rear right outshut, and the interior has been re-partitioned and rearranged for office use.
The exterior features two storeys and an asymmetrical five-window south front, which includes a 20th-century timber door on the left. There are five ground-floor sash windows, with the left-hand sash having eight over twelve panes and the others being 16-pane hornless sashes. The left-hand side of the first floor has two gabled dormers, one with a 12-pane sash and the other with a 20-pane sash, while the remaining three first-floor windows are 16-pane hornless sashes. The west gable end likely has small-pane sash windows from the 20th century. The rear elevation includes 19th and 20th-century timber windows and a 20th-century timber door. The interior has been modernized, and although the roof was not inspected, it may hold some interest.
Local climate
Range of Buildings to South of Abbot's Tower, Buckfast Abbey receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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