3 and 5, Tor Church Road is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villa. 5 related planning applications.
3 and 5, Tor Church Road
- WRENN ID
- broken-mortar-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 3 and 5, Tor Church Road, TQ2 5UR
- OS grid reference
- SX 910 642
- Coordinates
- 50.46822, -3.53605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property at 3 and 5 Tor Church Road comprises a pair of villas dating from approximately 1840 to 1850. The villas are set back from the road behind a garden. They have a rectangular plan, double in depth and one room wide, with entrances on their outer returns.
The exterior is symmetrical with a two-bay front arrangement. The buildings feature deep boxed eaves and a platband at first-floor level. Original high-transomed French windows are present on the ground floor; the left-hand window (at No. 5) has margin panes. The first floor has four hornless 12-pane sashes, and two segmental-headed attic dormers, the left of which has a 2-light casement with six panes per light, while the right has been reglazed as a 2-pane casement. A modern timber verandah with a lapped glass roof runs across the front of the building, and No. 5 retains a timber trellis panel beneath the verandah eaves. Doorways are located on the three-bay outer returns, with No. 5 featuring a 20th-century glazed porch block. The interior has not been inspected but may contain features of interest.
Local climate
3 and 5, Tor Church Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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