74 and 75, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1973. Terraced houses.

74 and 75, Fore Street

WRENN ID
tattered-courtyard-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1973
Type
Terraced houses
Address
74 and 75, Fore Street, Ilfracombe
OS grid reference
SS 522 477
Coordinates
51.20982, -4.117
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

74 and 75 Fore Street are a pair of terraced houses from the 18th century that have been altered. They are finished in stucco and topped with slate roofs. The buildings rise three storeys and each has two windows.

No. 74 features a central entrance with a segmental arch and a part-glazed 19th-century door, flanked by two shop windows with timber cases. The first floor has segmental arched casements with glazing bars, while the second floor has recessed sashes with margin glazing located under the eaves.

No. 75 also has a segmental arched entrance with a part-glazed door. It has segmental arched, flush framed, two-pane sashes on the ground and first floors, and a recessed 20th-century window under the eaves on the third floor.

The interiors have not been inspected. All the listed buildings on Fore Street are part of a group.

Local climate

74 and 75, Fore Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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