Castor House and Castor Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House, shop.
Castor House and Castor Stores
- WRENN ID
- ragged-kitchen-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Castor House and Castor Stores, Castor Road, Brixham
- OS grid reference
- SX 924 552
- Coordinates
- 50.38738, -3.5145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castor House and Castor Stores is a house that now functions as a residence and shop, believed to have originally been a farmhouse. It dates from the early 19th century and is likely a remodelling of an 18th century or earlier structure. The building features solid rendered walls and a steeply-pitched hipped roof covered with slates. There is a rendered chimney on the left side wall and a painted brick chimney on the hip to the right.
The building has a double-fronted and double-depth plan, with a small rear projection to the right, and stands two storeys high. The front, which faces north, has three windows. In the centre is a late 20th century wood glazed door, flanked by a late 19th century small-paned glazed porch with coloured margin-panes. On either side of the porch are early 20th century canted bay windows with lean-to tiled roofs; each bay window contains a 4-light wood casement with transom-lights featuring coloured leaded glass. The upper-storey windows are fitted with 6-paned sashes.
On the right side wall, which faces the road, there is a late 20th century shop front on the ground storey, while the upper storey has three windows, all with 6-paned sashes, except for the lower left-hand sash, which has lost its glazing bars.
Local climate
Castor House and Castor Stores 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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