Alpha Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Alpha Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-lancet-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Alpha Cottage, Gweek, TR12 6TU
- OS grid reference
- SW 706 268
- Coordinates
- 50.09732, -5.20802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alpha Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage situated at the end of a row. It is constructed of rubble and cob walls, with a steep, grouted scantle slate roof. The right-hand end has a half-hipped form, while a brick chimney, shared with the adjacent Tattle-Tale Cottage, rises above the left-hand party wall. A dry Delabole slate roof covers the rear wing. The cottage has an L-shaped plan, likely containing a kitchen/living room at the front with an entrance and staircase on the left side, and a small kitchen wing projecting at right angles behind the left-hand side. The west front features one window and a ground-floor doorway. The doorway has a 4-panel door, with later glazing added to the top panels, and a 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash window. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Alpha Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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 — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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