6 and 8, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. Cottage. 11 related planning applications.
6 and 8, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- dim-porch-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 6 and 8, Castle Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8EZ
- OS grid reference
- SS 496 191
- Coordinates
- 50.95179, -4.14207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a pair of early 17th-century cottages located on the east side of Castle Street, with alterations made around 1735. The cottages are two storeys high and have plaster walls. The original thatched roof has been replaced with slate. There are two wooden casement windows on the right-hand side. Windows at each floor, on the left-hand side, have partially exposed frames and glazing bars. The cottages feature old stone chimneys located on the ridge and at the rear. A rendered stone wall is situated at the south end of the row. Numbers 2 to 8 (even), numbers 18 and 20, Castle House, and numbers 5 to 13 (odd), numbers 21 to 25 (odd) on the west side form a group.
Local climate
6 and 8, Castle Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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