Grey House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Villa.

Grey House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 May 1994
Type
Villa
Address
Grey House, Old Torwood Road
OS grid reference
SX 927 639
Coordinates
50.46549, -3.51291
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Grey House is a villa, divided into flats, dating from the 1850s. It features a cement-rendered exterior and a hipped slate roof, with stacks that have rendered shafts, platbands, and projecting cornices. The building has a double-depth plan and is two rooms wide, with the entrance located on the west side, accessible from a lane shared with Cambridge Lodge.

The exterior is two storeys high and presents an asymmetrical three-bay entrance front. It has deep eaves supported by brackets, an eaves band, and a sill band. There are pilaster strips on the left and right sides of the ground floor, and the first floor has stuccoed, rusticated quoins. The central bay features a projecting porch with a round-headed doorway that has a moulded architrave and a moulded string at the springing of the arch. The porch is topped with a deeply projecting moulded cornice below a parapet. To the right of the porch is a shallow projecting stack with its shaft extending through the eaves. The ground-floor window to the left and the first-floor windows to the left and centre have moulded architraves and are fitted with 12-pane sashes, although the centre window has had its lower sash replaced with a single pane.

To the left, there is a simpler three-window service wing with sash windows beneath a lower roof. The garden elevation mirrors this style, featuring a two-window arrangement and a canted bay window on the ground floor to the right, which has moulded architraves, a cornice, and a parapet. The first-floor windows have louvred shutters. The interior has not been inspected but may contain features of interest. The building is complete externally and forms an attractive pair with Cambridge Lodge.

Local climate

Grey House 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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