24, 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.

24, Fore Street

WRENN ID
seventh-threshold-aspen
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
Address
24, Fore Street, Buckfastleigh, Teignbridge
OS grid reference
SX 740 661
Coordinates
50.48131, -3.7771
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 24 Fore Street is a shop with accommodation above, currently functioning as a post office. It dates from around the 1880s and is likely a remodelling of an earlier structure. The building is constructed with mass wall techniques, finished in stucco, and features a slate roof that is gabled at both ends, with a stack at the right end and a cast-iron gutter.

The exterior consists of two storeys with an asymmetrical front that has two windows, arranged in a regular pattern. It is topped with a modillion eaves cornice. A continuous fascia runs across the front, adorned with finely painted consoles that have carved heads. To the left, there is a recessed panelled door leading to the accommodation, featuring upper panels that are fielded and a deep overlight. The shop front to the right, likely dating from the 1880s, includes plate-glass windows that are canted towards a half-glazed panelled shop door, also with a deep overlight. The shop window is supported by cast-iron columns with moulded bases and capitals.

The interior has not been inspected, but it may contain interesting features. This building is included in the register for its group value and notable shop front.

Local climate

24, 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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