Breage Cliff and Attached Walls with Letterbox is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1994. A C18 House.

Breage Cliff and Attached Walls with Letterbox

WRENN ID
worn-panel-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1994
Type
House
Address
Breage Cliff and Attached Walls with Letterbox, Beacon Road, Porthleven
OS grid reference
SW 626 256
Coordinates
50.0832, -5.31922
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Breage Cliff is a house dating from the late 18th century, constructed with rendered probable rubble and featuring a half-hipped slate roof. It has a granite ashlar stack on the left and a rendered stack on the right. The building has a shallow-depth plan and consists of two storeys over a basement, with a symmetrical three-window front. The windows are late 19th or 20th century six-pane horned sashes, except for an original hornless sash located in the basement on the left. The central doorway is framed by a 20th-century gabled porch, which is situated on the landing of a double flight of granite winder steps, with the porch doorway positioned to the right.

The property includes subsidiary features such as rubble forecourt walls, with a curved wall on the left leading to a low front wall that has round-headed granite end piers and gate piers for the central gateway. There is also a tall wall adjoining the left side of the house, which has a doorway near the house and a Victorian letterbox built into it. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.

Local climate

Breage Cliff and Attached Walls with Letterbox receives an average of 880 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 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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