Kestrel Pit Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.

Kestrel Pit Cottage

WRENN ID
last-vestry-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Kestrel Pit Cottage, Kilkhampton, EX23 9HW
OS grid reference
SS 221 109
Coordinates
50.87023, -4.52857
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kestrel Pit Cottage is a house located in Kilkhampton, dating from the 18th to 19th century, with some 20th-century additions. The cottage is whitewashed and rendered, featuring a thatched roof and brick gable end chimneys. It has a single depth plan and is two stories high with a two-window front, which includes a 20th-century door. The ground floor windows are two-light casements with six panes per light, and the first-floor windows are similar. Inside, the ground floor room on the right has a large fireplace with a fireplace beam and a rear right winder stair. There is also a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey addition at the left gable end. Kestrel Pit Cottage is notable for being the only thatched building in Kilkhampton parish.

Local climate

Kestrel Pit Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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