48, 49 and 50, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1993. Terrace of houses.

48, 49 and 50, High Street

WRENN ID
veiled-plinth-bittern
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 of houses
Address
48, 49 and 50, High Street, Bideford
OS grid reference
SS 450 265
Coordinates
51.01742, -4.20997
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

48, 49, and 50 High Street are a terrace of three houses built in the early to mid 19th century, with some minor alterations from the late 19th century. The front walls are solidly rendered, while the left side wall of No 48 is also rendered. The top of the right side wall of No 50 is made of exposed stone rubble, and the top of the left side wall of No 50 is covered with large slates due to the roof's height. The houses have slate roofs, with a hipped roof at the left end of No 48, featuring perforated red crested ridge-tiles. Nos 48 and 49 each have brick chimneys at the rear, with round red pots visible behind the ridge.

These two-storey houses have varying window arrangements: No 48 has three windows with a doorway replacing the middle ground-storey window; No 49 has a similar layout but lacks a middle window on the second storey; No 50 features one window in each storey with a doorway to the left. The doors include a four-panelled door at No 48 and No 50, while No 49 has a six-panelled door with a moulded architrave, where the two lowest panels are flush. Nos 49 and 50 also have old knockers. The windows are sashes set in recessed box-frames, with six panes in most, except for the two-paned second-storey windows at No 48, which have horns, as do the sashes in both windows at No 50.

Although the interiors were not inspected, No 48 features a half-glazed inner front door with glazing bars, where the margin panes contain coloured glass and the middle panes are decorated, possibly with patterned paper or engraving, along with a solid moulded lower panel.

Local climate

48, 49 and 50, 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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