Thor House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1993. A C19 House with shop.

Thor House

WRENN ID
heavy-hall-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1993
Type
House with shop
Address
Thor House, 20, Bolton Street, Brixham
OS grid reference
SX 923 559
Coordinates
50.39335, -3.51564
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thor House is a house with a shop located on Bolton Street in Lower Brixham, dating from the early 19th century. It features solid roughcast walls and a slated roof, with a rendered chimney on the right side wall. The building is single-fronted and likely has a double-depth plan, designed to fit the sharp angle of Cavern Road, which runs to the left.

The house stands three storeys tall and is two windows wide. The early 20th-century shop front spans the entire ground storey, featuring a pair of display windows that are canted in the center towards recessed three-quarter-glazed doors. The windows are set on glazed brown tile plinths and include transom-lights with patterned leaded glazing, along with a similar fanlight above the doorway that has wooden glazing bars. Flanking pilasters and an entablature complete the shop front.

The upper-storey windows are small-paned sashes, with 6 over 6 panes in the second storey and 3 over 6 panes in the third storey. A deep flat eaves-cornice extends around the left side wall towards Cavern Road, which has no windows but features a single doorway. The rear wall contains a narrow window with an 8-paned fixed sash. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Thor House 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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