The Smugglers Cottage of Tolverne is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Cottage.
The Smugglers Cottage of Tolverne
- WRENN ID
- solitary-hearth-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Smugglers Cottage of Tolverne, Philleigh
- OS grid reference
- SW 845 401
- Coordinates
- 50.22247, -5.02191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smugglers Cottage of Tolverne is a cottage that was possibly originally built for fishermen. It dates from the 17th or 18th century and was extended in the 19th century. The cottage features slatestone rubble walls and a wheat reed thatched roof that is hipped to the left. There are rubble chimneys on the gable end to the right and on the gable end of the rear wing, as well as brick lateral stacks at the rear. The layout consists of a two-room plan with a two-room wing that forms an L shape, along with later infill in the angle. The building is two storeys high and has one window on the south front, which may have originally been at the rear. The nearly central doorway has a boarded door and a domed thatched hood above it. To the right of the door is a two-light casement window with 18 panes and one form of two hipped ends with a valley between. The later left wing is set back slightly. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Smugglers Cottage of Tolverne receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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