Trosbie Cottage, Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Cottage.
Trosbie Cottage, Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- waning-mortar-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Trosbie Cottage, Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers, 18, Milton Street, Brixham
- OS grid reference
- SX 919 550
- Coordinates
- 50.38547, -3.52107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Trosbie Cottage is a house that was formerly part of the service wing of Norton House. It likely dates from the 17th century or earlier, with some superficial remodeling in the early 19th century. The cottage features solid roughcast walls and a slated roof, with a rendered chimney on the left end wall and another on the rear wall to the right. It is two stories high and three windows wide. The central doorway has a late 20th-century glazed wood porch.
On the ground floor, there are two wood casement windows with three lights; the left window has two panes per light, while the right window has four panes per light. The upper-storey windows are two-light wood casements with six panes per light, featuring Gothic-glazed transom lights. The left side wall includes a three-paned wood casement window on the ground floor and a two-light wood casement window with two panes per light on the upper storey.
The interior was not inspected, but it was described in a 1975 listing as altered, yet it retains a central passage and some ceiling beams. The roof trusses remain, although later purlins and collars have been removed.
The cottage is accompanied by a front garden wall made of stone rubble with a flat stone coping. The coping ramps up in the center to a pair of square stone rubble gate piers with flat stone caps. On the left side, the wall ramps up to another gate pier with a flat stone cap, which does not project beyond the wall face. The left pier rises higher and lacks a cap. Both piers have been repaired with red brick.
Local climate
Trosbie Cottage, Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers 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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