53 and 54, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1993. House.
53 and 54, High Street
- WRENN ID
- fading-dormer-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53 and 54, High Street, Bideford
- OS grid reference
- SS 451 266
- Coordinates
- 51.01794, -4.20908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
53 and 54 High Street is a pair of houses with a shop, likely originally a single house, that underwent early to mid 19th-century remodelling, possibly of a 17th-century or earlier structure. The front is solidly rendered, topped with a slate roof featuring crested red ridge-tiles, and there is a rendered chimney on the right-hand end wall. The building likely follows a 3-room-and-through-passage plan, being one room deep with a long rear wing to the right. The doorway was probably added to the middle room when the house was divided.
The structure has three storeys and a symmetrical front with a three-window range. The middle window on the ground storey is flanked by two round-arched doorways. The ground storey features horizontal channelling with a raised band at the sill level of the second storey, and the doorways have voussoirs channelled into the render. The door at No 53 is a four-panelled design with a brass letterbox, while No 54 has a late 20th-century glazed shop door with plain display windows on either side, which are likely enlargements of standard domestic windows. The remaining windows are two-paned, box-framed sashes with a single upright glazing bar, except for the middle window on the second storey, which is a four-paned late 20th-century casement. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
53 and 54, High 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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