Higher Court (Terrace) Including Gate Piers at No 1 is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. A C19 Terrace of cottages. 1 related planning application.

Higher Court (Terrace) Including Gate Piers at No 1

WRENN ID
drifting-vestry-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1975
Type
Terrace of cottages
Address
Higher Court (Terrace) Including Gate Piers at No 1, 1-4, Churston Road, TQ5 0HY
OS grid reference
SX 901 558
Coordinates
50.39249, -3.54682
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A terrace of four estate cottages built in the mid-19th century. The cottages are constructed of coursed and squared stone rubble, with gable and rear walls rendered. They have slated roofs and rendered chimneys on each gable end and on the ridge between numbers 2 and 3. Each cottage likely comprises one room wide and one room deep, with doorways to numbers 1 and 4 situated to the rear. There are two large rear wings shared among the four cottages. The terrace has two storeys and six windows across the front. The windows are wood casements with four tall, narrow panes per light, with three lights on the ground storey and two above. Hoodmoulds, constructed of long squared blocks of stone on short squared stone brackets, feature above the windows, alongside half-glazed doors. At the left-hand end of the terrace, the entrance to number 1 is marked by two stone and rubble gate piers with caps built of stones on edge.

Local climate

Higher Court (Terrace) Including Gate Piers at No 1 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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