Cavern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. House.
Cavern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-crypt-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cavern Cottage, Alexandra Road, Newquay
- OS grid reference
- SW 830 630
- Coordinates
- 50.42733, -5.05542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cavern Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 19th century, with few later alterations. It is built of painted stone rubble and has a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends, featuring an axial stack with a brick shaft.
The cottage has a two-room plan, with a slightly projecting wing on the left that has a gable end facing the front left, and the entrance and another room to the right. The exterior presents an asymmetrical two-storey front, with the gable end on the left showcasing a gabled porch that has pierced bargeboards supported by wooden posts. The porch contains a plank door with beading, and there are single lights with transoms on either side. The first floor features a three-light mullion and transom window, also adorned with similar bargeboards. To the right, there is a square bay with a four-light mullion and transom window beneath a pitched roof, and a three-light mullion and transom window above it. There are 20th-century garage doors to the right, and the right end of the building is blind. The left side includes a square bay at ground floor level with a four-light mullion and transom window, again with a pitched roof over the bay, and a three-light mullion and transom window above it. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Cavern Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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