40, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1983. House with shop. 1 related planning application.
40, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- carved-jade-foxglove
- 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
- House with shop
- Address
- 40, Fore Street, Buckfastleigh, Teignbridge, TQ11 0AA
- OS grid reference
- SX 739 661
- Coordinates
- 50.48115, -3.77809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 Fore Street is a house with a shop, dating from around 1775 to 1800, possibly a remodelling of an earlier building. It is constructed with mass wall construction, stuccoed and blocked out, and has an asbestos slate roof that is gabled at the right end. The stacks were not visible during the survey, and it features cast-iron rainwater goods. The building has a double-depth plan, one room wide, with a room over the cartway to the right. The ground-floor plan has been altered for shop use.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front. It has an eaves cornice with a modillion frieze. The doorway is located to the left and features a doorcase with panelled pilasters and an entablature with roundels. The door is a 20th-century glazed door with an overlight. To the right, there is a 19th-century shop window with panelled pilasters, triglyph brackets, and a cornice with a modillion frieze. A three-light window with a moulded frame and mullions is also present. The cartway to the right curves around to the rear of the building and includes one section of probably 18th-century chamfered crossbeams that support wide floorboards.
The interior of the ground floor has been altered in the 20th century, but features of interest may still survive elsewhere.
Local climate
40, Fore Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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