Tor Royal Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Lodge.

Tor Royal Lodge

WRENN ID
late-marble-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Lodge
Address
Tor Royal Lodge, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon
OS grid reference
SX 599 731
Coordinates
50.54145, -3.97794
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tor Royal Lodge is a lodge for Tor Royal House, dating from the early 19th century with a later 19th-century addition. It features granite rubble walls and a pyramidal roof made of slate and asbestos slate, along with a central axial chimney stack made of granite ashlar.

The lodge is designed with four rooms arranged around the central chimney stack, each originally having a corner fireplace. The two front rooms are the larger principal rooms. A later 19th-century outshut has been added to the left-hand end.

The exterior is a single storey with a symmetrical front that has two windows, each containing two-light 19th-century casements with four-centred arched heads and intersecting glazing bars. The central doorway has a blocked four-centred arch above it. There are remains of the original doorhood featuring a moulded cornice and one original pilaster at the rear, while the front has a renewed post. A supporting wall has been inserted under the left-hand side of the building, which has a 20th-century glazed door on its front wall. The other two elevations maintain their 19th-century arched-head casements.

Inside, the principal room includes a Victorian arched grate in the corner chimneypiece and a built-in settle facing it.

Local climate

Tor Royal Lodge receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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