Wharf Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1989. House.

Wharf Cottage

WRENN ID
stubborn-fireplace-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1989
Type
House
Address
Wharf Cottage, Druxton Wharf, Werrington
OS grid reference
SX 341 883
Coordinates
50.67076, -4.34857
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wharf Cottage is a house that was later used as a wharfinger's cottage and is now a private residence. It likely dates from the 17th century or early 18th century. The building features painted stone rubble and cob, with cob walls on the outshut. It has a scantle slate roof with hipped ends and brick stacks at the ends. The layout consists of two rooms with a cross or through passage heated by the end stacks. A lean-to service outshut, added in the 18th century, extends across the rear.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front with complete 19th-century casements made of crown glass. The central entrance is a 19th-century six-panel door with a slate hood, flanked by two three-light casements. On the first floor, there is a central two-light casement with two three-light casements on either side. The interior has not been inspected. The house was occupied by the wharfinger after the Bude Canal opened in 1823 and is located near the now filled-in canal basin of Druxton Wharf. The former stable and warehouse to the northwest have not been inspected.

Local climate

Wharf Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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