Building at Approximately 40 Metres West of Capstan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Fisherman's cellar.

Building at Approximately 40 Metres West of Capstan Cottage

WRENN ID
high-string-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
Fisherman's cellar
OS grid reference
SW 350 262
Coordinates
50.07748, -5.70517
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building located approximately 40 metres west of Capstan Cottage is likely a former fisherman's cellar and loft, dating from the mid-19th century. It is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings and features a concrete tile roof with brick chimneys on the left-hand gable end. The building has a rectangular plan built into the bank at the rear, with a ramp leading up to the first-floor doorway in the right-hand gable end.

The exterior is two storeys high at the front and retains its original elevations. The north front has one window, with a ground floor doorway on the left and a 16-pane casement window on the right at the first floor. There is a wide doorway at the left-hand gable end, along with an original two-light casement window at the first floor left, which has vertical glazing bars and random panes. The doors are old ledged doors. The interior has not been inspected. This building is one of two similar structures that remain from a demolished complex associated with the fishing industry in Sennen Cove.

Local climate

Building at Approximately 40 Metres West of Capstan Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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