Bridge Cottage Zennor, Wayside Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. House museum.

Bridge Cottage Zennor, Wayside Museum

WRENN ID
dark-rotunda-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1988
Type
House museum
OS grid reference
SW 454 383
Coordinates
50.19063, -5.56823
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Cottage, also known as Zennor Wayside Museum, is a miller's house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a remodel from the early 19th century. It is constructed from granite rubble and dressed granite moorstone, topped with a grouted scantle slate roof and dressed granite stacks at the gable ends. The building has a two-room plan, featuring a larger hall/kitchen on the right and a parlour on the left, with a cross passage leading to a single-storey 19th-century wing that extends at right angles behind the rear left.

The exterior is two storeys high and presents a nearly symmetrical three-window south front, with the doorway located slightly to the left of the centre. The original small window openings are found on the ground floor and in the right-hand gable, while the first-floor openings were likely added around 1805 when the eaves were raised.

Inside, there is a large fireplace with a domed stone oven in the kitchen and a smaller fireplace in the parlour. The floor is made of granite flags, incorporating some millstones, and the interior features 19th-century carpentry and joinery.

Local climate

Bridge Cottage Zennor, Wayside Museum 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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