5, Queen Street

No. 5 Queen Street is a house from the late 18th century, currently serving as the front building of a car firm. The exterior features rendered walls that are solid at least on the ground floor. The roof covering is not visible from the street, and there are chimneys located at the left end of the ridge and on the right side wall. The building has a double-depth plan with a central doorway that leads to a stair at the rear. The left room on the ground floor has been reduced in width to accommodate a carriage entrance on the left side.

At the rear, there are two parallel ranges of workshops set at right angles. The house is three storeys high and has a three-window range, with the outer two windows forming full-height canted bays, although the left bay only occupies the second and third storeys. The central double doors consist of six ovolo-moulded panels, with the outer panels being narrower than the central ones. These doors are flanked by panelled pilasters and topped with a triangular pediment on carved consoles. The carriageway features 20th-century iron gates and has a stretch of early 19th-century moulded cornice inside.

All windows have six-paned sashes in moulded frames, except for the left-hand ground-storey window, which has eight-paned sashes in a concealed frame. The building also has a prominent boxed eaves-cornice. The left rear range has been altered on the ground floor, but the upper storey still retains 19th-century workshop windows. Access to the interior is refused, but photographs in the Bideford Community Archive show a cornice with a ceiling band in the entrance passage and a boxed-in stair that may be from the 18th century.