Torre House

Torre House is a house, now divided, dating from the 16th century and largely altered in the 19th century, with significant changes made in 1681. It is built of rubble, with roughcast rendering, under a slate roof. The house has stone stacks at the right and left gable ends, and brick on a gabled wing. Originally a two-cell plan with a cross passage, it includes a full-height porch and a long cross wing to the front facing the road.

The two-storey, four-bay front has 20th-century two- and three-light mullioned and transomed windows, apart from a small glazed opening in the gable end and a full-height gabled porch. The porch has two small slits in its gable, and a renewed cambered head with a square hood mould. The inscription “1681” is carved above the entrance. An ovolo-moulded mullioned window is on the left return front.

Inside, there is a Victorian stone arch leading to the stairway. Original features remain including an earlier stair bay at the gable end, a fireplace in the kitchen wing, and chamfered spine beams with run-out stops on the left side of the cross passage. A fine moulded six-panel compartment is on the first floor to the left. The roof structure features collar and principal rafters.