Building at Approx 4m North of the Moorings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. A Nineteenth Century Summer house folly.

Building at Approx 4m North of the Moorings

WRENN ID
silent-obsidian-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1986
Type
Summer house folly
Period
Nineteenth Century
OS grid reference
SW 778 387
Coordinates
50.20702, -5.11427
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, located approximately 4 meters north of The Moorings, is a summer house folly dating from the early 19th century. It features walls made of shale rubble and has slate sills. The roof, likely covered with scantle slate, is overgrown, and there is a brick chimney on the right-hand gable. The structure has a single-cell, roughly rectangular plan with quadrant walling forming an integral porch on the left side and a hearth on the right, built into the bank at the rear. It exhibits Gothic influences and is a single storey, raised over a retaining wall foundation. The south front has two windows with original leaded glass, featuring intersecting traceried glazing in pointed arched openings. Inside, the space is simply lime-washed, with a brick floor and a boarded ceiling.

Local climate

Building at Approx 4m North of the Moorings receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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