Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. Residential cottage. 1 related planning application.
Rock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-eave-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1974
- Type
- Residential cottage
- Address
- Rock Cottage, Mevagissey
- OS grid reference
- SX 015 440
- Coordinates
- 50.26259, -4.78555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Cottage is an 18th-century building constructed from colour-washed rubble and features a half hipped slate roof. The cottage has two storeys and three windows facing the sea front. There are steps leading to the doorway at the rear, which opens onto the road. It is built on rock foundations over the beach. Rock Cottage is included for its group value with Mermaid Cottage, The Corner, Porthgrwara, Windyknowe, Chyreen, Seaview Cottage, and Rising Sun Inn.
Local climate
Rock Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% 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 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 0.2°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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