Tumbles Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1982. House. 7 related planning applications.

Tumbles Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1982
Type
House
Address
Tumbles Cottage, Launcells, EX23 9LZ
OS grid reference
SS 252 072
Coordinates
50.83864, -4.48289
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tumbles Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century to the 18th century, consisting of two builds with alterations made in the late 20th century. The cottage is constructed of whitewashed rendered cob and features a thatched roof, which is gabled at the right end and hipped at the left, with a rendered chimney located on the ridge at the junction of the two builds. It has a single depth plan and is two stories high.

The front of the cottage includes a large projecting thatched entrance porch to the left, along with a large entrance hall. There is an additional entrance at the higher end of the building. Some openings have been enlarged, including a late 20th century bow window on the ground floor to the right. Other ground floor windows are late 20th century timber casements with glazing bars that open horizontally. The thatch is eyebrowed over four similar first floor windows, and there are three eyebrowed first floor rear windows facing the street. The rear window at the higher end has an enlarged opening and a casement similar to the first floor front windows, while the other first floor rear windows are two-light timber casements with four panes per light.

On the ground floor, the rear window at the higher end is a two-light timber casement with four panes per light, and the ground floor rear window at the lower end is a fixed light window with four panes. The ground floor room at the lower end features a large fireplace with a chamfered fireplace beam that has step stops, along with large ceiling beams. The ground floor room at the higher end includes a massive cross beam, and the upstairs rooms have pegged roof timbers.

Local climate

Tumbles 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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