Boatmens Shelter is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Shelter.

Boatmens Shelter

WRENN ID
shadowed-tin-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 June 1985
Type
Shelter
Address
Boatmens Shelter, the Lugger, Gerrans
OS grid reference
SW 877 352
Coordinates
50.17909, -4.97412
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Boatmens Shelter is an early 19th-century structure located on the north side of The Lugger in Portscatho, Gerrans. It features painted slatestone rubble walls and a pyramidal grouted, scantle slate roof. The building has a square, one-room plan and is single-storey, overlooking the harbour to the east.

The south entrance front includes a central doorway with a split stable-type boarded door. To the left of the doorway, there is a small window or ventilator opening that has been blocked. The west wall boasts a large central three-light casement window, with six panes per light and a twelve-pane overlight above the transom. The east wall is highlighted by a central bay window that overlooks the harbour, featuring a twelve-pane horizontal sliding sash and six-pane sidelights. The interior is simple, and the original roof structure remains intact.

Local climate

Boatmens Shelter receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% 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 0.2°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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