Blacksmiths Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1973. Public house.
Blacksmiths Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
- final-marble-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Blacksmiths Arms Public House, Torrington Street, Bideford, EX39 4DP
- OS grid reference
- SS 456 262
- Coordinates
- 51.01505, -4.20183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blacksmiths Arms Public House is a 18th-century building, originally constructed in 1741, with a 20th-century addition at the rear. It features solid rendered walls and a slate roof, with rendered chimneys on each gable end and a small red brick chimney on the rear wall. The building stands two storeys tall, with a single-storey structure attached to the right-hand end. The main façade has a three-window range, where the middle window is narrower than the outer two. The single-storey section has a wide window flanked by two doorways.
At the center of the main front is a round-arched doorway, flanked by pilasters and an entablature, leading to a six-panelled door with panelled reveals, where the bottom panels are flush. The windows are barred sashes, with 10 over 10 panes at each end and 6 over 6 panes in the center. The middle window features a keystone with incised initials and the date 1 M M 1741. The entire front is flanked by giant Doric pilasters, with sections of architrave and frieze above, surmounted by a continuous, heavily-moulded cornice below the eaves. The single-storey building has a triple-sashed window with 8 over 8 panes and 4 over 4 panes in the sidelights. The front is finished with a parapet. The interior was inspected only in the ground-floor bar, which appears to have been significantly altered in the late 20th century.
Local climate
Blacksmiths Arms Public House 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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