Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-crypt-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fern Cottage, Fore Street, Penzance, TR19 6TQ
- OS grid reference
- SW 468 264
- Coordinates
- 50.08395, -5.53974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Cottage is an early 19th-century building located on the north side of Fore Street in Mousehole. It features granite construction with a rendered first floor and a slate hipped roof. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows, which are sashes set in moulded casings without glazing bars. The plain central doorway has a modern glazed door. This building is included for its group value with Loon-Bennett and The Wheel House.
Local climate
Fern Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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