Carriage Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 2001. Carriage shed. 1 related planning application.
Carriage Shed
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-cinder-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 2001
- Type
- Carriage shed
- Address
- Carriage Shed, Kingsley Road, Bideford, EX39 2LQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 451 271
- Coordinates
- 51.02319, -4.20914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Carriage Shed, built in 1901 for the Bideford, Westward Ho and Appledore Railway, is a railway carriage shed constructed from local grey limestone with white brick window dressings and a sheet roof. It is a long, single-storey structure featuring a gabled roof. One gable is open and has a modern folding door with vertical boarding above, while the other gable is solid stone with three windows. The long walls of the shed have nine windows, all fitted with 6 over 6 pane sashes. The roof slopes each have eleven rectangular lights.
Inside, the shed is a single space that originally accommodated two tracks for housing two coaches each. The roof is supported by eight king post trusses. The Bideford, Westward Ho and Appledore Railway was opened in 1901, functioning as both a railway and tramway, with its terminus located on the quay at Bideford. Although owned by the British Electric Traction Company, it was powered by steam. The railway had no connection to the London and South Western Railway at Bideford station, which was situated on the east bank of the River Torridge. The railway operated for only sixteen years before being dismantled and shipped to France in 1917, with no attempts made to reopen it after the war.
Local climate
Carriage Shed 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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