Castle Hill House Including Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
Castle Hill House Including Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- ragged-spire-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castle Hill House Including Garden Wall, South Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8AA
- OS grid reference
- SS 495 190
- Coordinates
- 50.95077, -4.14389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Hill House, built around 1820, is a large house set back in a garden and accessed from South Street. It features a hipped slate roof and is two stories high with four sash windows, complete with glazing bars, on the garden front. The house has a cornice and a parapet. At the south end of the garden, a stone wall adjoins a public walk that overlooks the valley and is designed in the same style as the Town Mills, likely from the mid-19th century.
In the center of the wall, there is a projecting tower with a pointed door opening and sunk rectangular and circular panels above. The walls on either side of the tower have sunk cruciform panels and castellated parapets. Behind the wall, there is a vaulted outhouse and a flight of steps leading down to the garden level. The design of the walls may have been influenced by the nearby Castle site, adding visual interest to the public walk and enhancing views of the town from this side.
All the listed buildings along South Street are part of a group.
Local climate
Castle Hill House Including Garden Wall receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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