20, The Strand is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1949. A Early 19th century Terrace-house.
20, The Strand
- WRENN ID
- north-plaster-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1949
- Type
- Terrace-house
- Address
- 20, The Strand, Bideford
- OS grid reference
- SS 452 268
- Coordinates
- 51.02056, -4.20831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 The Strand is a terrace house built in the early 19th century. It features a solid rendered front with a horizontally-channelled ground storey and a slate roof. There are rendered chimneys on each side wall. The building stands three storeys high with a semi-basement and has a three-window range.
The doorway replaces the middle ground-storey window and is accessed by six steps. It has a Greek Doric porch with a triangular pediment and a six-panelled door with matching reveals and a knocker, where the bottom panels are flush. The ground-storey windows are 8-paned sashes, while the second-storey windows consist of 4-paned French windows with margin-panes and a continuous patterned iron balcony. The third-storey windows have 2-paned sashes in the center and 2-light wood casements on the sides, with each light containing 2 panes.
The semi-basement window on the left is blocked, and the one on the right has been converted into a loading entrance with plank doors. The building features a prominent boxed eaves cornice. The channelling and eaves cornice continue across No. 19, although there is a distinct break in the cornice. The balcony design is also very similar to that of No. 19. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
20, The Strand receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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