Jouster's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Cottage.
Jouster's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-passage-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Jouster's Cottage, North Street, Penzance
- OS grid reference
- SW 468 264
- Coordinates
- 50.08452, -5.54021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jouster's Cottage is an early 19th-century tall, narrow house located on the west side of North Street in Mousehole. It is constructed of granite rubble and features a slurried slate hipped roof with wide eaves that have pendants in diamond panels along the eaves soffit. The building has three storeys and one window, with sashes that include glazing bars. The ground floor has a horizontal sliding sash window. There is a passageway on the right side of the cottage. This building is included for its group value, as it forms part of a group with Nos 8 and 10, Virgin Place.
Local climate
Jouster's Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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