CASTOR HOUSE AND CASTOR STORES

CASTOR HOUSE, CASTOR ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208614
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: CASTOR HOUSE AND CASTOR STORES
Statutory Address:: CASTOR HOUSE, CASTOR ROAD

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

Not all listed places are appearing on this map. We are investigating this issue and will have a fix in place as soon as we can. Updated: 6 February 2025.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2001-06-23
Reference:: IOE01/04729/13
Rights:: © Mr Dennis Coote. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208614
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: CASTOR HOUSE AND CASTOR STORES
Statutory Address 1:: CASTOR HOUSE, CASTOR ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: CASTOR STORES, CASTOR ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CASTOR HOUSE, CASTOR ROAD
Statutory Address:: CASTOR STORES, CASTOR ROAD

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

District:: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brixham
National Grid Reference:: SX9243255265

Details

SX9255 1946-1/7/79 10/01/75

BRIXHAM CASTOR ROAD, Higher Brixham (East side) Castor House and Castor Stores

GV II

House, now house and shop; said by 1975 list description to be a former farmhouse. Early C19; probably a remodelling of a C18 or earlier building. Solid rendered walls. Steeply-pitched hipped slated roof. Rendered chimney on left side wall. Painted brick chimney on hip to right. Double-fronted and double-depth plan, with small rear projection to right. 2 storeys. 3-window front facing north. Late C20 wood glazed door in centre; late C19 small-paned glazed porch with coloured margin-panes. At either side an early C20 canted bay window with lean-to tiled roof; each window has a 4-light wood casement with transom-lights containing coloured leaded glass. Upper-storey windows have 6-paned sashes. Right side wall, facing road, has late C20 shop front in ground storey; 3 windows in upper storey, all with 6-paned sashes, except that the lower left-hand sash has lost its glazing bars.

Listing NGR: SX9243255265

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 383564
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.