The Leather Workshop is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 1987. Shop.
The Leather Workshop
- WRENN ID
- endless-tower-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 April 1987
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Leather Workshop, Quat Street, Looe
- OS grid reference
- SX 255 532
- Coordinates
- 50.35308, -4.45422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Leather Workshop is a building located on Quay Street in East Looe, dating from the 17th century. Originally thought to be fisherman's stores, it now functions as a shop. The structure is built from rubble and features stop-chamfered oak lintels, topped with a steep rag slate roof. It has a deep plan and is oriented end-on to the street. The building is two storeys high with a one-window range. A 20th-century window is positioned in a small opening above the original doorway, which has a 20th-century door.
Inside, the floor is partly slate-flagged and partly cobbled, with stop-chamfered oak joists that are open to wide floorboards. At the rear, there is a small oak two-light mullioned window and what is believed to be a sounding hole used for signaling in connection with smuggling activities.
Local climate
The Leather Workshop sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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