Little Gannet is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Town house.

Little Gannet

WRENN ID
gilded-granite-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Town house
Address
Little Gannet, 4, Lower Chapel Street, Looe
OS grid reference
SX 255 531
Coordinates
50.35275, -4.45341
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Gannet is a town house located on Lower Chapel Street in East Looe, dating from 1650 as indicated by the render. The building features a combination of rendered rubble and studwork, topped with a steep asbestos slate roof that has a 20th-century dormer on the right side. It has a shallow-depth plan and stands three storeys tall, with an overall three-window range that is slightly irregular. The windows and glazed doors are from the 20th century. There are two doorways centrally located on the main part of the house, with the right-hand doorway being taller, likely modified later. A wide opening, or passage, is situated on the right. Inside, the house has ceiling joists made of oak, which date from the 17th or early 18th century.

Local climate

Little Gannet 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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