Torre Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. A C19 House.
Torre Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-flint-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Torre Cottage, Brunswick Square
- OS grid reference
- SX 908 646
- Coordinates
- 50.4714, -3.53954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Torre Cottage is a house located in Torquay, built between 1835 and 1845. It is one of a pair with the Eagle Chinese Restaurant on Brunswick Square. The building has a plastered exterior and a slate roof, featuring stacks with rendered shafts and brick bands.
The house is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front. There are three first-floor windows and a door positioned to the right of centre. The door is a 20th-century addition with a plain overlight and a glazed gabled porch hood that has a dentil cornice. The first floor has three 16-pane sash windows, each with dentil cornices, while the ground floor features three high transomed casement windows with margin panes and dentil cornices.
The interior has not been inspected but may still have interesting features.
Local climate
Torre Cottage 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
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- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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