Former Torr Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. House. 10 related planning applications.
Former Torr Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vast-transept-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former Torr Farmhouse, Yealmpton, PL8 2HR
- OS grid reference
- SX 581 511
- Coordinates
- 50.3428, -3.99445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Former Torr Farmhouse, dating circa 1860, is a stone rubble building with a slate roof and gabled ends. The front features three small gables with ornate pierced bargeboards and pendants. The house has two storeys and an attic, with three bays arranged symmetrically. Windows are Gothick two-centred arches, featuring casements with Y-tracery and leaded panes. A central stone porch has a two-centred arch doorway and gables with ornate bargeboards; the inner door also has a two-centred arch and fanlight. Ground floor windows and the doorway are topped with hood moulds. Stone chimney stacks are located at the gable ends and have brick shafts set at a diagonal. Pointed arch windows are present in the gable ends.
Local climate
Former Torr Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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 — 25 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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