5 and 7 Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. Cottage block.
5 and 7 Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- ruined-ledge-foxglove
- 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 block
- Address
- 5 and 7 Castle Street, Great Torrington
- OS grid reference
- SS 496 191
- Coordinates
- 50.95172, -4.14221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
5 and 7 Castle Street is a likely 17th-century two-storey cottage block that has been altered over time. The walls are roughcast, and the building was originally thatched, but now features a roof that is partly slate and partly sheeting. On the ground floor, there is one 19th-century sash window on the left, while the other windows are casements, mostly with glazing bars. The windows of No. 7 have been renewed and enlarged, along with its door. The doorways have plain reveals, and there is an old stone chimney at the north end. One of the doors is a five-panel design with sunk upper panels. Nos 5 to 15 (odd) and Nos 21 to 25 (odd), along with Nos 2 to 8 (even), Nos 18, 20, and Castle House on the east side, form a group.
Local climate
5 and 7 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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