Garden Cottage About 500 Metres North West of Pentillie Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Attached estate houses. 1 related planning application.
Garden Cottage About 500 Metres North West of Pentillie Castle
- WRENN ID
- night-stronghold-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- Attached estate houses
- Address
- Garden Cottage About 500 Metres North West of Pentillie Castle, PL12 6SN
- OS grid reference
- SX 406 647
- Coordinates
- 50.46097, -4.24671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is a pair of attached estate houses located about 500 metres northwest of Pentillie Castle. They were built in the mid-19th century, with some later alterations. The buildings are constructed from slatestone rubble with granite quoins and feature a slate roof that is stepped over the two houses, complete with crested ridge tiles and gable ends, and an axial stack with a brick shaft.
The layout consists of two attached houses, each with a one-room plan, side entrances, and shallow rear service rooms. There is a rear lean-to for a scullery behind each house, and each front room shares the axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces.
The exterior is two storeys tall, with the house on the left at a slightly higher level due to the slope of the ground. Each house has a canted bay at the ground floor with plate-glass sashes. The first floor features an 8-pane sash window in a gabled dormer with bargeboards and a finial. The left side includes a conservatory porch with a central door and overlight, and two 12-pane sashes with brick segmental heads on the first floor. There is also a 2-light window at the ground floor to the left. The single-storey rear service lean-to has a brick stack and a 6-pane light. On the right side, there is a central door with two windows to the right, and two 12-pane sashes at the first floor with brick segmental heads. The rear has two central 16-pane sashes at both the ground and first floors, also with brick segmental heads; each lean-to has a door on the inner side and a 3-light casement window at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Garden Cottage About 500 Metres North West of Pentillie Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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