Cider House About 10 Metres South of Westcott is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Industrial building.
Cider House About 10 Metres South of Westcott
- WRENN ID
- heavy-porch-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- Industrial building
- OS grid reference
- SX 372 683
- Coordinates
- 50.492, -4.29597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cider house, located about 10 metres south of Westcott, is likely from the early 19th century. It is constructed from slatestone rubble with granite dressings and features a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. The building has a small rectangular plan, with the cider press and apple crusher located on the ground floor. There is a loft at the right end, accessed by an external stair at the front. A lean-to is present along the rear and at the left side.
The front of the cider house includes a ground floor window and a 4-centred arched hollow-chamfered doorway made of reused granite, which is probably from the 17th century. To the right of the doorway, there is an external stone stair leading to an upper doorway. Attached to the left is a single-storey lean-to with a door featuring a brick segmental head. Adjacent to this is a screen wall approximately 2.5 metres high and 6 metres long, made of slatestone rubble with slate coping, which conceals a pigsty from view. The right side of the building is blind. At the rear, there is another single-storey lean-to with a window, a ventilation slit, and a door on the right side. Additionally, there is a single-storey rubble lean-to at the left end, which has a pair of double doors, one of which is half-blocked, and a corrugated asbestos roof. Behind the screen wall is a small single-storey lean-to that is open at the side and contains a granite trough.
Inside, the cider house features a cobbled floor and retains its machinery, including a cider press on the left with a circular granite basin that channels into a deep granite trough, along with a wooden frame that has a screw and circular wooden press. The apple crusher is located at the right end, with a loft above it that contains a deep circular granite basin and a granite crushing wheel turned by a central wooden post.
Local climate
Cider House About 10 Metres South of Westcott sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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