4, Queen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1997. House.
4, Queen Street
- WRENN ID
- stranded-corridor-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1997
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4, Queen Street, Bideford
- OS grid reference
- SS 454 267
- Coordinates
- 51.019, -4.2049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Queen Street is a house with a shop, dating from the late 15th century and remodeled in the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of stuccoed stone and features slate roofs with gabled ends. The front range has a two-bay late Medieval roof that runs at right angles to the road, likely serving as a first-floor chamber. At the back, there is a range parallel to the road, which also has a late Medieval two-bay roof that appears to be smoke-blackened. This back range is likely part of the structure of No. 3 Queen Street and seems to have been independent of the front range until the early to mid-19th century when the front was refronted and joined with the back.
The exterior consists of two storeys, with a one-bay east front featuring a 20th-century shop on the ground floor and a 20th-century three-light window above. To the left of the shop, there is a doorway with a round arch, a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars, and a panelled door. The back range also includes 20th-century windows.
Inside, the front section has a two-bay Medieval roof that is truncated at the front. It features two moulded arch-braced trusses supported by moulded wooden corbels, along with moulded wall-plates and purlins. This roof is not smoke-blackened and appears to be a first-floor chamber that may have extended further to the rear. The back range has a two-bay roof parallel to the street, with three raised cruck trusses that have curved feet, morticed and tenoned to cambered collars, and threaded purlins. This roof appears to be smoke-blackened, and the floor includes a chamfered cross-beam that was inserted in the 17th century, morticed for a partition below.
Local climate
4, Queen Street 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
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