Tolva Tudor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1993. Town house. 1 related planning application.

Tolva Tudor Cottage

WRENN ID
floating-joist-bracken
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
Tolva Tudor Cottage, Lower Chapel Street, Looe, PL13 1AT
OS grid reference
SX 255 531
Coordinates
50.35274, -4.45366
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tudor Cottage and Tolva are a pair of town houses forming part of a row, dating from the 17th century. Originally a single L-shaped building, it was later extended at the front of Tolva. The building is constructed of painted rubble with asbestos slate hanging to the Tolva section, featuring a steep asbestos slate roof with a hip on the right side and a 20th-century dormer window on the left. The rear has a rendered stack to Tolva and a slatehung gable to Tudor Cottage. The overall arrangement is of a three-window range. Tudor Cottage has an early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash window, and an entrance with a 20th-century door on the right. Tolva has 20th-century replacement windows.

Inside Tolva, the first floor retains a 17th-century ceiling with chamfered oak joists, alongside remnants of a chamfered oak beam and joist ceiling within the basement. There are lateral fireplace structures, and the basement (now at ground floor level) features a chamfered oak lintel. A simple winder staircase and the feet of what is likely the original roof structure remain visible. Tudor Cottage similarly has 17th or 18th-century ceiling joists.

Local climate

Tolva Tudor 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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