Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House. 10 related planning applications.

Court House

WRENN ID
sacred-string-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
House
Address
Court House, Rock House Lane, TQ1 4SU
OS grid reference
SX 925 684
Coordinates
50.50554, -3.5172
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 16th-century house, originally a farmhouse, that has been partly converted into holiday flats. It has been extended and altered in the 20th century. The house is constructed of stone rubble with plastered cob walls and an artificial thatched roof, with gables at each end and stacks with rendered shafts. The overall layout is an L-shape. The main range has a doorway which may have originally led into a cross passage. A cross wing projects to the front and contains a fine parlour on the ground floor, with a stack on the inner return and an adjoining winder stair. There is also a small closet in the rear right corner.

The front of the main range has a 2:2 window arrangement, with the two leftmost windows being a 1950s addition. The front door to the right has a thatched porch. Two ground-floor windows have early 19th-century sixteen-pane sashes, and the first-floor windows are 20th-century timber casements. The wing to the right has two windows in the gable end wall, and a stack on the inner return.

Inside, the parlour features a richly-moulded intersecting beamed ceiling. The fireplace has been reduced in size, and a blocked newel stair alongside has a timber arched doorway. The closet has a small timber-framed window. The first floor retains a similar doorway at the top of the stairs, and an axial beam with scroll stops. The roof apex was not inspected, but there is no evidence of cruck trusses on the first floor.

Local climate

Court House 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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