Torbay House

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.