Premises Occupied by Village Gossip is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1993. Town house.

Premises Occupied by Village Gossip

WRENN ID
patient-banister-bracken
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
Premises Occupied by Village Gossip, Princes Square, Looe
OS grid reference
SX 252 532
Coordinates
50.35307, -4.45712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, known as the premises occupied by Village Gossip, is a town house dating from the 18th century that was remodeled in the late 19th century. It features incised stucco on studwork and rubble, with a steep asbestos slate roof that is hipped at the front. There is a brick stack at the rear gable and a lateral stack on the left side. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with a two-window range.

The front has late 19th-century four-pane horned sash windows, and there is a 20th-century glazed door located to the left of center. On the right side, there is a late 19th-century corner shop with windows set back from the corner, framed by end pilasters with pedimented consoles and a moulded entablature with fascia. The front shop window includes a doorway with a glazed door and overlight on the left, alongside a two-light horned sash window on the right. The two-light shop window on the right-hand return is a transomed fixed light, and to the far right of the return are two original or early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash windows. The interior is simple where it has been inspected.

Local climate

Premises Occupied by Village Gossip 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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