Tor House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. House. 7 related planning applications.
Tor House
- WRENN ID
- little-glass-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tor House, Ford Road, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 085 280
- Coordinates
- 51.04449, -3.30572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tor House is an early 19th-century house located on Ford Road in Wiveliscombe. The exterior is rendered to imitate stucco and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with deep eaves and a soffit board. The house is two storeys tall and has three bays. It includes sash windows with glazing bars, blind boxes on the first floor, and 20th-century French windows on the ground floor. There is a verandah with nine bays that has returns on the sides, supported by a wooden structure with four central arcades and a glazed canopy. To the left, there is a two-storey extension that is set back and has decorative wooden aprons above the glazing bar sashes. A 20th-century conservatory is located to the right of the main block.
Local climate
Tor House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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