Lower Kitleigh Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. House, farmhouse.
Lower Kitleigh Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-iron-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- House, farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Kitleigh Cottage, Week St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- SX 245 993
- Coordinates
- 50.76732, -4.48968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Kitleigh Cottage is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from around the 18th century. It features a whitewashed cob exterior with a slate roof and brick chimneys. The building has a single depth plan, likely originally consisting of two rooms on the ground floor, which have now been combined into one room.
The cottage is two storeys high and has a three-window range, with an off-centre Georgian door that has six panels and a contemporary frame, sheltered by a canopy made of large slates. The ground floor windows are replica timber sashes, each with eight panes, while the first-floor windows are also timber sashes with eight panes each.
Inside, the ground floor room on the right has a slate floor and features large, widely spaced ceiling beams, some of which have been renewed, along with a massive brick-lined fireplace that retains one granite jamb. There is a cloam oven located at the right gable end stack, and four pigeon holes on the right front and additional ones on the right gable end. The rear windows have been renewed and do not have glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lower Kitleigh Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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