The Breakwater is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Infrastructure. 1 related planning application.
The Breakwater
- WRENN ID
- grey-nave-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Infrastructure
- Address
- The Breakwater, Bude-Stratton, EX23 8LQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 201 065
- Coordinates
- 50.83044, -4.55583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Breakwater is a harbour wall constructed between 1839 and 1843 by George Casebourne, engineer to the Bude Harbour and Canal Company, to a design by James Walker. It is built of stone rubble and features a low wall with a deeply battered profile, standing four feet above the high water mark of spring tides and forming part of the harbour defences. This breakwater replaced a previous structure, built in 1819 for the Company, which was destroyed by a storm in 1838.
Local climate
The Breakwater sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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