The Smugglers is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. House.
The Smugglers
- WRENN ID
- watchful-buttress-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Smugglers, St. Austell Bay
- OS grid reference
- SX 028 505
- Coordinates
- 50.32173, -4.77085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smugglers is a late 18th-century building located in Higher Porthpean. It is constructed of roughcast stone rubble and has two storeys with five sash windows that feature glazing bars, although most of the frames have been renewed. On the right side, there is a two-storey splayed bay. A large modern glazed porch leads to the central doorway, which has a wide six-panel door. The end wall facing the road includes two-light sashes with glazing bars and segmental arches with keyblocks. There is a projecting wing on the left, and the building is topped with a slate hipped roof. The Smugglers is part of a group of listed buildings in Higher Porthpean.
Local climate
The Smugglers receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
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