Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-latch-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, Week St. Mary, EX22 6XJ
- OS grid reference
- SX 237 976
- Coordinates
- 50.75187, -4.49949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house that was originally two cottages from the 17th century, with additions made to the rear in the 20th century. The building features whitewashed cob on a stone plinth and a corrugated asbestos roof, which was formerly thatched, along with brick chimneys. The layout consists of two single-cell cottages that were accessed through a common entrance door leading into a passage with doors off to the sides.
The structure is two stories tall and has a three-window range. The ground floor windows have been replaced with two-light casements that include glazing bars, with the middle window having replaced a former door. The first-floor windows on the left and right are similar, while the middle window is a one-light casement with glazing bars.
In the ground floor room on the right, there is a massive fireplace featuring one granite jamb, a chamfered fireplace beam with straight cut stops, and a cloam oven cross beam, along with curved, roughly-hewn floor beams. A newel staircase from around the 19th century is located to the left of the fireplace. The ground floor room on the left has similar floor beams and staircase, as well as a large slatestone fireplace with a chamfered fireplace beam and cloam oven. Some original roof timbers are still present.
Local climate
Church 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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