Torbay House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. House.
Torbay House
- WRENN ID
- patient-pavement-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Torbay House, Torbay Road, Castle Cary
- OS grid reference
- ST 632 322
- Coordinates
- 51.08879, -2.52648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Torbay House is a detached house dated 1819, located on Torbay Road in Castle Cary. It is constructed from Cary stone ashlar with Doulting dressings and features concrete double Roman tiles between stepped coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks. The house has a double roof plan and stands three storeys high with three bays. The windows are 4-pane sash windows with plain beaded surrounds. The lower bay features a 6-panel door set in a semi-circular arched recess, topped with a radial glazed fanlight, an architrave, and an open pediment hood supported by simple brackets. The north gable is reinforced by two large raked buttresses, and there is an oval datestone with a simple hood, inscribed 'RP/1819', located at the end of the valley between the roofs on this gable. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Torbay House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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