TORR HOUSE AND HIGHER TORR FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169277
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: TORR HOUSE AND HIGHER TORR FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: TORR HOUSE AND HIGHER TORR FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169277
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: TORR HOUSE AND HIGHER TORR FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TORR HOUSE AND HIGHER TORR FARMHOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TORR HOUSE AND HIGHER TORR FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Yealmpton
National Grid Reference:: SX 58333 51077

Details

SX 55 SE YEALMPTON HIGHER TORR 4/216 Torr House and Higher Torr Farmhouse

II

Two adjoining houses. Torr House was built in 1792. Stuccoed stone rubble. Slate hipped roof with wide eaves. Two storeys. Three bays. Sash windows with glazing bars, ground floor with margin lights. Central doorway with C20 pilastered doorcase with arched hood over fanlight. Inner door has original traceried fanlight. Interior: contemporary moulded plaster cornices and friezes, chimneypieces and staircase with elliptical arch in hall. Higher Torr Farmhouse adjoining at east. Circa C18, rendered rubble. Slate roof with hipped and gabled ends. Two parallel ranges with gables at east end. Two storeys. Various sashes and casements.

Listing NGR: SX5833351077

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 100494
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.