Osborne House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1993. Town house. 3 related planning applications.
Osborne House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-flint-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1993
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Osborne House, Lower Chapel Street, Looe, PL13 1AT
- OS grid reference
- SX 255 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35269, -4.45356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Osborne House is an early 19th-century town house situated at the end of a row in Lower Chapel Street, East Looe, with a rear range dating to the 18th century. The house is built of painted rubble with a dry slate roof, hipped on the left side. Rendered and brick stacks rise from the left and right respectively. The house has a double-depth plan, with the rear range extending under a steeply pitched parallel slate roof. It is two storeys high with a three-window front. Original 16-pane hornless sash windows remain. The ground floor features a central doorway with a 20th-century split door, flanked by 20th-century windows, with the window on the left having been widened. The rear range is constructed of rubble with timber lintels and a steep slate roof. The right-hand end of the house overlooks the garden of Tudor Cottage. The right-hand gable end has a wide 3-light casement window on the first floor, incorporating horizontal glazing bars to the left-hand light, with an attic window above. The interior has not been inspected, but may contain features of interest. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Osborne House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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