The Larches is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. House.
The Larches
- WRENN ID
- lesser-marble-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Larches, Black Torrington
- OS grid reference
- SS 464 056
- Coordinates
- 50.82993, -4.18136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Larches is a house dating from the early to mid 19th century. It features rendered walls and a hipped slate roof, with a brick stack positioned off the ridge at the front. The building has a double depth plan that is two rooms wide, with a central entrance hall and a side lobby at the right end, situated between the front and rear rooms.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a regular five-window front. Some window openings have been blocked, but the windows in the centre and to the right still have their original 9-pane sashes. There are 12-pane sashes below to the left of centre and to the right. The central entrance features an original six-panel door. The right-hand end wall includes a 9-pane sash window on the first floor at the centre and a 19th-century glazed door below, topped with a large glazed light. Other elevations of the house also have sash windows.
The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey but is likely to retain its 19th-century joinery.
Local climate
The Larches sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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