Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-banister-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Virginia Cottage, Finnygook Lane, Sheviock, PL11 3BP
- OS grid reference
- SX 355 538
- Coordinates
- 50.36159, -4.31316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is a pair of attached houses, now functioning as a single residence, dating from the mid to late 18th century with some 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and features a slate roof with gabled ends and gable end stacks topped with cap stones.
The cottages have adjoining central entrances, each designed with a one-room plan, and the rooms are heated by gable end stacks. The structure is two stories high and has two windows. On the upper floor, there are two small two-light casements with slate sills positioned under the eaves, likely from the 19th century. The ground floor includes two two-light casements on the left and right, along with a central porch that has a pitched roof and two half-glazed doors separated by a wooden partition. Notably, the left side of the building features a roof slope that is higher at the front.
The right side has an external stack and a small single-storey addition from the 20th century. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Virginia Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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