Pixie House to West of Lower Penpethy is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. Shop.
Pixie House to West of Lower Penpethy
- WRENN ID
- lesser-plinth-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1987
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Pixie House to West of Lower Penpethy, Tintagel
- OS grid reference
- SX 081 862
- Coordinates
- 50.64395, -4.71432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pixie House, located to the west of Lower Penpethy in Tintagel, is a shop that may have originally been built as a cottage, likely in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of slate stone rubble and features a scantle slate roof. The roof has a semi-conical hipped end on the left and a hipped end on the right, with a gable end above the porch. There is a projecting front lateral stone rubble stack.
The house has a very small one-room plan with an entrance through a gabled porch on the right and a rounded left end. It is a single-storey structure with a picturesque asymmetrical front elevation. The low slate roof features a semi-conical hipped end on the left and an open-fronted gabled porch on the right, which is slightly off-center. A large lateral stack with wide set-offs is positioned at the front, topped with slated weathering. Two narrow window openings flank the stack, with the left-hand window being a half-dormer with a gabled roof. There is also a narrow window opening in the left-hand side wall.
Inside, the fireplace has a segmental arched slate lintel, and the roof features exposed collar rafters. A board inside the porch indicates that this house was traditionally built for the piskies in the 19th century and was formerly inhabited by an old woman.
Local climate
Pixie House to West of Lower Penpethy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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