Lower Stursdon is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House.
Lower Stursdon
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-keystone-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Stursdon, Morwenstow
- OS grid reference
- SS 237 132
- Coordinates
- 50.89149, -4.50679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Stursdon is a house dating from the 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a thatched roof with brick chimneys at the gable ends. The 20th-century addition on the left has a gabled slate roof. The house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical front with three windows. There is a semi-circular stone porch topped with a conical rag slate roof. The ground floor windows are 20th-century timber casements, while the first-floor windows on the left and right are 19th-century two-light timber casements, each with six panes per light. Above the porch, there is a single-light timber window. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lower Stursdon sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% 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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