The Mermaid Cafe and Adjoining House to North is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1988. Cafe, house.
The Mermaid Cafe and Adjoining House to North
- WRENN ID
- idle-cupola-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1988
- Type
- Cafe, house
- OS grid reference
- SX 012 415
- Coordinates
- 50.24073, -4.78805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mermaid Cafe and the adjoining house to the north are located on Church Street in Gorran Haven. These buildings date from the late 18th century to the early 19th century and have undergone some alterations in the 20th century. They are constructed from rendered stone rubble, with part of the exterior covered in slate and asbestos slates. The roof is tiled with concrete, featuring a gable end on the left and a hipped roof on the right.
The layout consists of a pair of attached one-room plan houses, each originally having a front door facing Church Street; however, the doorway on the right is now blocked. The house on the right is built over a fish cellar, which originally had an entrance at the right end. The buildings are two storeys high and present an asymmetrical front with three windows. On the first floor, there are three 19th-century 12-pane sash windows that are irregularly spaced. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century door to the left, with a 19th-century 12-pane sash window to the right of the door. The second doorway is blocked, and there is a similar sash window to the right. The left end of the building is adjacent to the adjoining house. At the right end, there is a doorway leading to the cellar and a 20th-century three-light window on the ground floor. The rear of the building is hung with asbestos slate and features a 20th-century window and door at ground level, along with a 20th-century window and a 19th-century 8-pane sash window on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Mermaid Cafe and Adjoining House to North 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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