Torrington and Attached Wall, Gate Piers and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.
Torrington and Attached Wall, Gate Piers and Gate
- WRENN ID
- blind-storey-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Torrington and Attached Wall, Gate Piers and Gate, 12, Rosslyn Hill, NW3 1PF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 269 854
- Coordinates
- 51.55386, -0.16986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Torrington is a detached house built between 1876 and 1878 by Batterbury and Huxley for Dr Andrew Miller. A later rear extension has been added. The house is constructed of red Fareham bricks with terracotta detailing and brick floor bands. It has a tiled hipped roof with three tall chimney stacks. These have segmental pediments above panels featuring rubbed brick festoons; those on the left return, overlooking Hampstead Hill Gardens, rise from full-height chimney breasts. A dentil eaves cornice runs around the building.
The house is three storeys high, with an attic and a semi-basement. The round-arched entrance is made of rubbed brick and features Ionic pilasters supporting a segmental pediment, above a 20th-century panelled door. Gauged brick flat arches surround the flush frame sashes. A three-window bowed bay rises from the basement through the first and second floors, with a central pediment featuring an oculus, flanked by rubbed brick festoons. The left-hand return has a rubbed brick pedimented plaque with a cartouche on the right-hand chimney breast.
The interior has not been inspected.
Attached to the property is a plum-coloured brick wall with gate piers inscribed "Torrington". These piers are surmounted by ball finials and have a cast and wrought-iron gate.
No. 12 Torrington is part of a wider development by Batterbury and Huxley, including several other listed buildings along Hampstead Hill Gardens.
Local climate
Torrington and Attached Wall, Gate Piers and Gate sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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