Islander Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Islander Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-roof-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Islander Cottage, Fore Street, Looe, PL13 2EY
- OS grid reference
- SX 252 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35266, -4.45775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Islander Cottage is a 17th-century building located on Fore Street in West Looe. It is a surviving part of a larger house, constructed from painted rubble with timber lintels. The cottage features a steep dry slate roof with original clay ridge tiles, which may have originally had a ridge similar to that of the nearby Jolly Sailer Inn and other local buildings. There is a rear lateral brick stack on the left side. The cottage has a single-depth plan with a later rear outshut, while the left-hand part of the house was demolished in the 20th century. It stands two storeys high and has a one-window range, with 20th-century 16-pane, 2-light casements in a projecting bay on the right. There is a doorway leading to a blind bay on the left, which features a 20th-century V-jointed planked door. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Islander Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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