Devonia and Retaining Wall to Raised Pavement Fronting Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. House and shop.

Devonia and Retaining Wall to Raised Pavement Fronting Fore Street

WRENN ID
fallow-soffit-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1984
Type
House and shop
Address
Devonia and Retaining Wall to Raised Pavement Fronting Fore Street, Milverton
OS grid reference
ST 122 257
Coordinates
51.02459, -3.253
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Devonia is a house and shop dating from the early 19th century. It features a rendered exterior over random rubble, with expressed quoins and a slate roof, complemented by brick stacks on the left and right. The building stands three storeys tall and has four bays. The late 19th-century sash windows are prominent, while the central two bays on the ground floor showcase an early 19th-century double shopfront. This shopfront includes an overall fascia, end pilasters, and multi-paned windows with slender glazing bars, leading to a central recessed doorway without pilasters, which has late 20th-century partially glazed double doors. Devonia is likely the best surviving 19th-century shopfront in Milverton. In front of the building, there is a random rubble retaining wall with brick coping, approximately 500 millimeters high, which supports the raised pavement along the road.

Local climate

Devonia and Retaining Wall to Raised Pavement Fronting Fore Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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