Torre Railway Station Including Bridge Across the Line is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Train station. 11 related planning applications.
Torre Railway Station Including Bridge Across the Line
- WRENN ID
- far-brass-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Train station
- Address
- Torre Railway Station Including Bridge Across the Line, Newton Road, TQ2 5EU
- OS grid reference
- SX 903 648
- Coordinates
- 50.47315, -3.5465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Torre Railway Station, built in 1848 for Brunel's South Devon Railway and enlarged in 1882, is a single-storey station designed in the Italianate style. The building features a timber frame clad with horizontal boarding that mimics banded rustication, topped with a low-pitched hipped slate roof.
The station includes waiting rooms and offices, with canopies over both the forecourt and the platform. The forecourt elevation is symmetrical, with a 1:3:1-bay front where the end bays project slightly. The eaves extend as a canopy supported by large curved timber brackets with pendants. The outer bays have Gibbs windows with pilaster frames and keyblocks, glazed with plate-glass sashes. The central bay features a simpler triple window with round-headed lights, flanked by two-leaf panelled doors, each with pilaster frames and an overlight above a cornice on brackets. The entrance is located at the extreme left, with three matching bays set back on either side.
On the platform side, there is a deep 12-bay matchboarded canopy with a fretted fascia on cast-iron brackets, and the spandrels display stylized foliage. The columns are concealed by concrete block infill. Steps lead to a bridge with fluted columns and decorated spandrels. The bridge is supported at its higher end by groups of four columns featuring Egyptian decoration, with iron lattice balustrades, a lead hipped canopy, and timber finials.
The station opened on 18 December 1848, and the first train, adorned with evergreens and flags, completed the 6-mile journey between Newton and Torre in just 13 minutes.
Local climate
Torre Railway Station Including Bridge Across the Line receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 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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