Thornes the Butchers is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. House with shop.
Thornes the Butchers
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-mortar-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- House with shop
- Address
- Thornes the Butchers, 5, West Street, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 080 278
- Coordinates
- 51.04225, -3.31329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornes the Butchers is a house with a shop, built in the early 19th century, with a shopfront added around 1900. The exterior is rendered to resemble ashlar, featuring quoin strips and a moulded cornice, topped with a low-pitched hipped roof made of Welsh slate and a brick chimney on the left side. The building has three storeys and two bays, with modern aluminium sash windows set in raised surrounds that have stressed voussoirs. The butcher's shop, dating from around 1900, is distinguished by a cows' head above the flanking pilasters, decorative coloured tiles, and cast iron ventilation grills for the basement. It also includes a plate glass window and door, along with a panelled pier that matches that of The Croft. This building was likely constructed as the domestic wing of The Croft and is primarily noted for its group value with that property.
Local climate
Thornes the Butchers 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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