Minster Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. House.
Minster Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-bailey-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Minster Cottage, High Street, Forrabury and Minster
- OS grid reference
- SX 099 905
- Coordinates
- 50.68326, -4.69107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Minster Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or 18th century, with its facade remodeled in the late 19th century. It is constructed from rendered and painted stone rubble, topped with a bitumen-coated rag slate roof that has gable ends extending over a late 18th-century outshot at the rear. The building features brick end stacks, with a stone rubble stack likely used to heat the rear outshot on the right; this stack may have originally served as a rear-lateral stack for the right-hand room.
The layout consists of two rooms and a cross passage, with the outshot added to the rear in the later 18th century. The house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front. The ground floor includes a central partly glazed 20th-century door and late 19th-century four-pane sash windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Minster Cottage holds significant group value with nearby buildings, including Homeleigh, The Cottage, The Corner Cottage, and Round Tree Cottage.
Local climate
Minster Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
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- 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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