Chudleigh Fort is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1949. Fortification.
Chudleigh Fort
- WRENN ID
- spare-rood-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1949
- Type
- Fortification
- Address
- Chudleigh Fort, Chudleigh Avenue, Bideford
- OS grid reference
- SS 458 263
- Coordinates
- 51.01605, -4.19856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chudleigh Fort is a Civil War fortification located in a public park in Bideford, built in 1642 and significantly rebuilt in the 19th century. The fort features a five-sided platform with a stone-rubble retaining wall and a parapet that includes 14 openings for cannons. On the south side, there is a granite plaque with lead lettering that reads: "FORT ERECTED BY PARLIAMENTARY FORCES COMMANDED BY MAJOR-GEN. CHUDLEIGH. APRIL 1642." The fort currently houses seven old cannons mounted on wheeled wooden gun-carriages. An early to mid-19th century account describes it as being surrounded by a slight stone wall with a turreted top, constructed by its then-owner, J. S. Ley, Esq., of Durrant House, Northam. The fort is situated on elevated ground overlooking the River Torridge.
Local climate
Chudleigh Fort 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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