Torre Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House.

Torre Cottage

WRENN ID
standing-tin-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1987
Type
House
Address
Torre Cottage, North Tawton
OS grid reference
SX 652 999
Coordinates
50.78346, -3.91294
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Torre Cottage is a small house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with 20th-century additions. The building features rendered rubble and cob walls and a hipped thatched roof. There is a central axial rendered brick stack, and the layout consists of a two-room plan, with each room heated by back-to-back fireplaces. Originally, there may have been a baffle entry in front of the stack, but the current entry is now into the left-hand room.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window front and three windows on the ground floor. The windows are 20th-century three-light casements, except for the right-hand ground floor window, which is a single light. To the left of the centre, there is a 19th or 20th-century open-fronted thatched porch, behind which is likely the original wide plank door. At the rear, there are 20th-century one-storey additions. Inside, both rooms feature open fireplaces with wooden lintels.

Local climate

Torre Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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