Castle House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. House, nursing home.
Castle House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-postern-fern
- 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, nursing home
- Address
- Castle House, Castle Street, Great Torrington
- OS grid reference
- SS 496 190
- Coordinates
- 50.95085, -4.14154
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle House is a late 18th century or early 19th century building, with a garden front added around 1820. It currently operates as a nursing home and is said to have been constructed using stone from nearby castle ruins. The building is square and two stories high, finished in stucco. It features sash windows and an ogee bracket cornice. The lower storey of the garden front projects and includes four tall sash windows with glazing bars. At the center, there is a recessed Greek Doric porch with fluted columns and pilasters in antis, along with guttae on the entablature. Above the porch is a deep balcony adorned with a decorative iron balustrade and a canopy supported by slender cast iron columns. Castle House is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 8 (even), Nos 18, 20, and Nos 5 to 13 (odd), as well as Nos 21 to 25 (odd) on the west side.
Local climate
Castle House 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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