Melita is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Melita
- WRENN ID
- odd-spindle-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Melita, Canton, St. Goran, PL26 6JG
- OS grid reference
- SX 012 415
- Coordinates
- 50.24032, -4.78926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melita is a house dating from the 18th century, with alterations and additions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The walls are built of rendered stone rubble, covered by an asbestos slate roof with ridge tiles. The roofline features a gable end on the left and a half-hipped roof on the right. There are two stacks: one with a brick shaft to the left, and another with a rendered shaft to the right. The house was originally planned with two rooms, a kitchen to the left and a parlour to the right, each heated by an end stack. A small outhouse is attached to the front left side, with a slurried scantle slate roof, ridge tiles, a gable end, and a stack with a rendered shaft, and featuring three 20th-century casement windows on its inner side; the right end is blind.
The main house has two storeys and a symmetrical three-window facade. All windows are 20th-century, 2-light, 6-pane casements, and the central doorway has 20th-century sidelights. The rear of the house is blind and faced with painted rubble. Inside, a wide entrance hall leads to a staircase with stick balusters. There are 19th-century four-panelled doors on both sides of the hall, and the room to the left contains a 20th-century rebuilt fireplace. The left end of the house, featuring an external stack, abuts the adjoining property.
Local climate
Melita 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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