No 10 Including the Old Tobacco House to Left is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1993. House.
No 10 Including the Old Tobacco House to Left
- WRENN ID
- dim-paling-ebony
- 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
- No 10 Including the Old Tobacco House to Left, Buttgarden Street, Bideford
- OS grid reference
- SS 453 263
- Coordinates
- 51.01571, -4.20668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of houses, originally one dwelling, dating from the early 18th century, with alterations in the late 18th or early 19th century. The front is rendered and has a slate roof, with a brick chimney on the right side wall. Number 10, the right-hand house, has a double-depth plan, consisting of one room wide with a short wing to the rear. The ground floor contains a through-passage on the left, leading to a rear staircase positioned behind the left-hand end of the front room.
The building is three storeys high, with a three-window front common to both houses. Paired doorways replace the central ground-floor window, with recessed six-panelled doors, the lower panels being flush, and are approached by two stone steps. These doorways are flanked and separated by three fluted Doric pilasters supporting a single entablature, and have narrow three-paned fanlights. The ground and second-storey windows have raised surrounds with pointed tops; the third-storey windows have plain raised surrounds. All windows have two-paned sashes with a single upright glazing bar; the sashes in the left-hand ground-floor window, all three second-floor windows, and the middle third-floor windows have horns. The front of the building features rusticated quoins. Rear windows have barred sashes.
The interior of Number 10 contains an early 18th-century wooden dog-leg staircase rising to the third storey. The first flight of the staircase has a later, late 18th or early 19th-century balustrade with thin, square balusters, while the remainder of the staircase retains its original turned balusters, square newels with ball-finials and pendants, and a moulded handrail. The front ground-floor room has a dentilled box cornice and, on the right wall, one-fillet ovolo-moulded raised-and-fielded panelling with two round-arched cupboards featuring shaped shelves, all of early 18th-century origin. A mid-19th-century wood chimneypiece with an ornate iron grate is also present. The rear room has late 18th-century cupboards with panelled doors. The front first-floor room has an early 18th-century bolection-moulded wood chimneypiece and some sunk bolection panelling. The rear room contains a fireplace with an ovolo-moulded architrave, cornice, and iron grate. Other rooms also include 19th-century iron grates. The Old Tobacco House, which is said to have originated as a warehouse, was not inspected. A late 20th-century inscription, "THE OLD TOBACCO HOUSE," is on the left-hand door.
Local climate
No 10 Including the Old Tobacco House to Left 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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