Minstel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1970. Cottage.
Minstel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-ledge-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1970
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Minstel Cottage, St. Keverne
- OS grid reference
- SW 782 182
- Coordinates
- 50.02295, -5.09661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Minstel Cottage, formerly listed as No 2 Chapel Row, is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th century. It has a rubble stone base with upper walls made of cob. The cottage features timber lintels over the ground floor openings and a thatched roof with brick chimneys at the gabled ends. The building is 1-room deep and has 2 cells, standing 2 storeys tall with an asymmetrical front that has 4 windows.
On the ground floor, there is a horizontal sliding sash window with 6 panes to the left and a 12-pane pivoting window to the right of a vertically planked door. Above, there is a 3-light centre-hung casement window with 2 panes each, followed by a 4-pane fixed light and a 2-light centre-hung casement window with 6 and 3 panes respectively. To the right, part of the facade is broken back, featuring another horizontal sliding sash window with 6 panes on the ground floor and a 2-light centre-hung casement window with 6 panes each above. At the rear, there is a lateral brick chimney that extends from the back wall. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Minstel Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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