1 and 2, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1993. Shop and house. 1 related planning application.
1 and 2, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- vast-doorway-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1993
- Type
- Shop and house
- Address
- 1 and 2, Fore Street, Buckfastleigh, Teignbridge, TQ11 0BT
- OS grid reference
- SX 741 661
- Coordinates
- 50.48126, -3.77576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century shop with living accommodation above, likely built on the site of an earlier structure. The building is of mass wall construction, with a stuccoed exterior and an asbestos slate roof, the ends of which are gabled. A left-hand side stack has a rendered shaft with a platband, and there are cast-iron gutters. The plan follows a double-depth layout with two rooms wide, and includes a probable later addition on the left end. This section, built of stone rubble, has varying floor levels, a lower roofline, and a rounded corner, and is rumored to have originally been a blacksmith's shop.
The front of the building has an asymmetrical facade with three windows, featuring regular window placement. There are recessed six-panel entrance doors, with the upper panels being fielded, each with a transom window. The right-hand door (No.2) has a reeded doorcase with a cornice. A late 19th or early 20th-century shop front exists to the left, featuring plate glass shop windows that cant forward to a glazed door with an overlight. The first floor has two late 19th or 20th-century two-pane sash windows in earlier openings. The first-floor window on the left is an early 19th-century twelve-pane hornless sash. The lower-roofed addition has a doorway with a timber lintel and a 20th-century three-light plate-glass shop window.
The interior partitions have been altered to accommodate retail use. Some timber, dated to the 16th century, was reportedly found within No.2.
Local climate
1 and 2, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1997
- 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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