Torfrey, Including Front Garden Walls and Railing is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1993. House. 2 related planning applications.

Torfrey, Including Front Garden Walls and Railing

WRENN ID
open-cobble-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1993
Type
House
Address
Torfrey, Including Front Garden Walls and Railing, 95, King Street, Brixham, TQ5 9TH
OS grid reference
SX 928 562
Coordinates
50.39674, -3.50929
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Torfrey is a house built in the 1830s to 1840s, located on King Street in Lower Brixham. It features solid rendered walls, with the right side wall covered in asbestos slate hanging, and a slated roof. There are rendered chimneys on each side wall. The house has two storeys and is three windows wide. The central doorway is round-arched and has a semicircular hood mould, a panelled door, and a fanlight with two radial bars. There is a late 19th-century half-glazed gabled porch with shaped bargeboards. The windows are plain sashes, except for the second-storey window in the centre, which is blind. Each end of the front has a giant pilaster, which is incised with a round-headed panel, and there is a deep, flat eaves cornice. The house is elevated above street level.

In front of the house, there is a garden with a painted stone rubble retaining wall topped with iron railings featuring fleur-de-lys heads on the uprights. On either side of the garden, there are additional painted stone rubble walls, with the left wall curving gently upwards towards the house.

Local climate

Torfrey, Including Front Garden Walls and Railing receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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