Chymor Sun Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1993. Town house.
Chymor Sun Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-oriel-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1993
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Chymor Sun Cottage, Lower Chapel Street, Looe
- OS grid reference
- SX 255 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35277, -4.45376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chymor and Sun Cottage is a town house located at the end of a row in East Looe, originally built in the 17th century and refronted in the mid-19th century. The building features rendered rubble with bands on the front and painted rubble on the right-hand end. It has a steep concrete tile roof with two 20th-century dormer windows, along with a shallower-pitch asbestos slate outshut at the rear. There is a rendered rubble stack on the right with a later brick shaft, and a rendered lateral stack at the rear of Chymor on the left. The building has a double-depth plan and a later outshut at the rear right. It stands three storeys tall, with the second floor partly in the roof space, and has an irregular two-window range. The late 19th-century windows are 4-pane horned sashes, except for an older 4-pane 2-light casement in the centre of the first floor. Chymor features a 19th-century four-panel door, with the top two panels later glazed, while Sun Cottage has an early 19th-century pilastered doorway with a moulded entablature and a 20th-century door. At the rear of the garden, there is a wall with sockets for former beams from a pilchard-pressing floor. The interior retains original floors and roof structure, although it has not been fully inspected.
Local climate
Chymor Sun 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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