4, The Walk is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

4, The Walk

WRENN ID
last-sandstone-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
4, The Walk, Launceston
OS grid reference
SX 332 847
Coordinates
50.63831, -4.35955
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 4 The Walk is a mid-19th century cottage ornee, featuring rubble walls with some slate hanging and dry slate hipped roofs that have shaped wooden fascia and barge boards. The building has an irregular arrangement of brick stacks and cast-iron ogee gutters. It is designed in a Gothic style and stands two storeys tall with a symmetrical two-window entrance front. The windows are 4-centred arched, consisting of two lights with leaded glass and Y-traceried heads. Above the first-floor windows, there are gables over the ground floor window shutters. The central doorway is arched and contains a six-panel door. The right-hand garden front has original diamond leaded lights and a stair projection with a tall window. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

4, The Walk sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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