Cottage and Adjoining Barn 8 Metres to West of Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1989. Cottage, barn.
Cottage and Adjoining Barn 8 Metres to West of Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-lintel-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1989
- Type
- Cottage, barn
- OS grid reference
- SX 299 865
- Coordinates
- 50.65362, -4.40724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a pair of cottages and an adjoining barn, located 8 meters to the west of Forge Cottage. It is likely from the 18th century and was extended in the mid-19th century. The structure is made of stone rubble and cob, with the cottage rendered and painted. The mid-19th century extension on the left is built of stone rubble with brick dressings. The roof is made of corrugated asbestos, with remnants of thatch still visible underneath.
The building has gable ends and features a projecting stone rubble end stack on the right, which includes set offs and a cloam oven projection. Originally, it was probably two one-room plan cottages with the barn added on the left around the mid-19th century. The right-hand cottage has an entrance on the left that leads directly into a ground floor room heated by an end stack. The left-hand cottage also likely had a one-room plan with an entrance on the right, although it is unclear how it was heated. The barn was added to the left-hand end in the mid-19th century. The right-hand cottage remains in domestic use, while the left-hand cottage and barn are now used as a store.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window front and the barn on the left. The entrance to the right-hand cottage features a 19th-century plank door with a slate hood, a 20th-century window to the right, and a 19th-century one-light casement window to the left. There is a 19th-century two-light casement window on the first floor. The left-hand cottage has a 20th-century outshut that contains a porch with a six-pane window to the left and a 19th-century two-light casement window on the first floor. The barn to the left has brick dressings on its openings and 20th-century garage doors at the rear.
Inside the right-hand cottage, the 19th-century joinery is unspoilt and unaltered. The interior of the left-hand cottage has been gutted but features a timber pegged roof, likely from the 18th century, which still retains a layer of thatch.
Local climate
Cottage and Adjoining Barn 8 Metres to West of Forge Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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