The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1993. Fisherman's house.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-foundation-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1993
- Type
- Fisherman's house
- Address
- The Cottage, Lower Market Street, Looe
- OS grid reference
- SX 255 532
- Coordinates
- 50.35285, -4.4534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a probable fisherman's house built over stores in the early 19th century. It features painted rubble walls and an asbestos slate roof that is hipped on the left. The building has a rectangular plan and is located at the end of a row, standing three storeys tall with an irregular two-window range on the second floor. The original windows include a 16-pane, two-light casement and a small two-pane window to the right. A flight of rubble steps with slate treads leads up to the first floor, where there is a doorway on the right with a 20th-century door.
The left-hand end of the building has a one-window range with wide openings that may have been former loading doorways. These openings contain pairs of late 19th-century, four-pane horned sashes, except for a pair of older or original shutters on the ground floor. The rear of the building has a one-window range with original 16-pane sashes on the upper floors and a 16-pane, two-light casement on the ground floor, along with a central doorway and another doorway on the right, both featuring old ledged doors.
Inside, there is a 19th-century straight-flight staircase and ledged doors.
Local climate
The Cottage 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
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