Furzewell House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Villa.
Furzewell House
- WRENN ID
- grim-mullion-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Furzewell House, Furzehill Road
- OS grid reference
- SX 913 647
- Coordinates
- 50.47216, -3.5318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Furzewell House is a large villa built in the late 1840s or early 1850s. It has a plastered exterior and a hipped slate roof, with stacks featuring plastered shafts, panels, and cornices. The building has a double-depth rectangular plan, with the entrance located on the east side. A service block, which is now in separate ownership, adjoins to the north and is not listed.
The villa is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-bay entrance front. The eaves and verge brackets are paired, and the centre bay is slightly advanced and gabled. It features a projecting Greek Doric porch with distyle columns in antis. The doorway is narrow and round-headed, with a panelled front door and a fanlight above. The first-floor centre sash window has 12 panes and is set in a segmental-headed recess. The left-hand bay has blind recesses, while the right side has a 12-pane sash window on the ground floor and a blind recess above it.
On the left (north) side, there is a glazed verandah supported by posts, along with two ground-floor French windows and two first-floor tripartite small-pane sash windows. The canted west end of the return features small-pane sashes. The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features.
Local climate
Furzewell 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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