Fairbank Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House.

Fairbank Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Fairbank Cottage, Fore Street, Looe
OS grid reference
SX 252 531
Coordinates
50.3527, -4.45752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fairbank Cottage is a small house dating from the 17th century, located on the north side of Fore Street in West Looe. The exterior features pebbledash render over a rubble structure, with a first-floor sill string and a rag slate roof that has sprocketed front eaves. There is a large rendered rubble chimney stack on the right side and five original crested clay ridge tiles. The building has a shallow-depth plan and stands two storeys high, with a two-window range that includes a small 20th-century window on the left. On the right, there is an early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash window above a mid-19th-century 6-pane hornless sash window, while a later 4-pane hornless sash window is located in a former doorway on the left. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Fairbank 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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