17 and 18, The Strand is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1973. House.

17 and 18, The Strand

WRENN ID
kindled-basalt-dust
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
17 and 18, The Strand, Bideford
OS grid reference
SS 452 268
Coordinates
51.0205, -4.20805
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

17 and 18 The Strand are a pair of houses dating from the early 19th century, which were restored in 1990. They have solid rendered fronts and slate roofs, with two rendered chimneys on the left gable wall and one visible on the front slope of the right gable wall. Each house has a double-depth plan and is one room wide, standing three storeys tall with a three-window range, although the middle windows are blind.

At the center of the ground storey, there are paired doors beneath a single doorcase featuring pilasters and an entablature. The doors are four-panelled with panelled reveals. The windows have moulded architraves, except for those on the left side of each storey of No 17, which have flat architraves. Most windows are six-paned sashes, except for the ground-storey and lower second-storey windows at No 17, which are plain. The entire front is flanked by giant Ionic pilasters, each topped with a section of architrave and frieze, and there is a boxed eaves cornice running across the front. A raised band is present at first-floor level, and there is a seven-paned round-arched stair window with margin panes in the left side wall.

The interior of No 18 features a wooden staircase with a very narrow open well, thin square balusters, cut strings, and column newels. The ground and first-floor front rooms have richly decorated ceiling bands, and the first-floor rooms also include a large enriched chandelier boss.

Local climate

17 and 18, The Strand 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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