Ash House Approximately 6 Metres North of Torhill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1987. Ash-house.
Ash House Approximately 6 Metres North of Torhill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- upper-keystone-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1987
- Type
- Ash-house
- OS grid reference
- SX 741 814
- Coordinates
- 50.61955, -3.78096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ash house, probably from the 18th century, located approximately 6 metres north of Torhill Farmhouse. It features granite rubble walls and a corbelled granite roof. The building has a circular plan and is single storey, with a doorway on the side opposite the farmhouse, which has granite jambs and a projecting granite lintel. There is a loading shute on the other side facing the farmhouse, positioned at a higher level, also with granite jambs and a lintel. The conical roof is covered in grass. This structure forms a group with Torhill Farmhouse.
Local climate
Ash House Approximately 6 Metres North of Torhill Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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