Cordys Close is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1967. A C18 Chapel.
Cordys Close
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-threshold-root
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1967
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Cordys Close, Mylor
- OS grid reference
- SW 789 382
- Coordinates
- 50.20283, -5.09927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel, dating to the late 18th century, now a private house. The front is granite ashlar with dressed granite detailing, while the rest of the building is constructed from dressed, coursed sedimentary stone. The roof is hipped, covered in scantle slate, with a parapet to the front and a polygonal roof over a canted rostrum or alter projection to the rear.
The building originally comprised a single cell aisless plan, now subdivided. It features an entrance in the middle of the front (south) wall and a canted projection to the middle of the rear wall. The design presents a curious mixture of Gothic and classical styles.
It is a single-storey building, symmetrical with three bays to the south front. It includes a plinth, granite ashlar coursed into weathered diagonal corner buttresses, bays punctuated by fluted consoles under a Gothic style cornice, and four obelisk pinnacles as finials over a blind parapet with cross bracing and quatrefoils. A central doorway has an original 6-panel door with trefoil-headed upper and lower panels and quatrefoils to the middle panels. There is a moulded 2-centred arched doorway with an original fanlight featuring intersecting glazing bars. An eroded inscription is visible within the tympanum of the doorway; the jambs have moulded bases and are broken forward. The transom, with lozenge and diamond recesses, continues as an impost band. Consoles support a stepped and raised segmental cornice resembling an open pediment. Flanking window openings have moulded architraves and 2-centred arches with original hornless sashes and intersecting glazing bars to the tympana. Four similar windows are on the rear, all with much original crown glass.
The interior was remodelled during the Second World War with the insertion of partitions and an attic floor. However, niches survive on the east and west walls, and a fine ceiling cornice, in a Gothic style, remains in the attic.
This is a very fine and complete 18th century chapel, notable for its unusual combination of Gothic and classical features.
Local climate
Cordys Close receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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