15 and 16, Lower Meddon Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1973. House.
15 and 16, Lower Meddon Street
- WRENN ID
- south-copper-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 15 and 16, Lower Meddon Street, Bideford
- OS grid reference
- SS 453 263
- Coordinates
- 51.01558, -4.20625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
15 and 16 Lower Meddon Street is a pair of houses, likely built in the mid to late 18th century, with some early to mid 19th-century additions. The front is solidly rendered and features a slate roof, with a rebuilt chimney on the right gable. The buildings are three storeys tall and have a three-window range.
The paired doorways are centrally located, recessed within a single wide opening that has a cornice hood supported by carved consoles. The doorways feature panelled reveals, with the bottom panels flush, and each has a four-panelled door topped with a three-paned fanlight. To the left of the doorways is a shoescraper.
The windows are flat-headed and have keystones. The left-hand windows all have eight-paned sashes, except for the upper third-storey sash, which has only four panes. The centre windows have six-paned sashes, except for the upper sash, which has three panes. The right-hand windows are fitted with small-paned late 20th-century fixed wooden sashes that include transom lights.
The ground storey features a moulded plinth and flanking panelled pilasters, while the upper storeys have corresponding reeded pilasters that rise from a plain string course. There is no entablature, just a plain board below the eaves. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
15 and 16, Lower Meddon 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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