1, 2 and 2a, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1993. Terrace house and shop. 8 related planning applications.

1, 2 and 2a, Market Place

WRENN ID
dreaming-rubble-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1993
Type
Terrace house and shop
Address
1, 2 and 2a, Market Place, Bideford, EX39 2DR
OS grid reference
SS 452 264
Coordinates
51.01657, -4.20695
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building consists of a pair of terraced houses and shops that have been combined into one structure. It is situated on an island site bordered by Buttgarden Street to the east and Honestone Street to the south, with the rest of this side of Market Place having been demolished. The building dates from the early to mid-19th century and features solid rendered walls and a hipped slate roof. It has three storeys, a basement, and a garret.

No 1 has a two-window range, while No 2 has a single window. The shop front of No 1, likely from the late 19th century with some 20th-century alterations, includes two display windows, with a panelled pilaster at the left supporting an entablature. No 2 has a similar single display window, which may also have an entablature concealed by a late 20th-century fascia, with a surviving console at the right end.

The upper-storey windows feature moulded architraves. The second-storey windows of No 1 are French windows with glazing bars and margin panes, while No 2 has six-paned sashes in this position. All third-storey windows have two-paned sashes. The rear wall, facing Honestone Street, has openings with plain raised surrounds; most have slightly pointed-headed lintels that project at either end, except for a round-arched stair window at No 1, which is tall and features 39 oblong panes with radial bars at the top. Below this window is a doorway with panelled reveals, and the left side has later boarding at the bottom. The second storey has two windows with six-paned sashes, and one in the ground storey likely has the same, although its lower sash is boarded over. The left side wall has openings that match those at the rear, and there is a pilaster strip at the right end, with no openings in the right side wall.

The interior has not been inspected, but No 1 appears to retain its original staircase, which features thin square balusters and a continuous handrail.

Local climate

1, 2 and 2a, Market Place 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 8 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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