Pixie Nook, House Attached to the Right and Forge Cottage with Attached Former Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1987. House, forge. 3 related planning applications.
Pixie Nook, House Attached to the Right and Forge Cottage with Attached Former Forge
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1987
- Type
- House, forge
- Address
- Pixie Nook, House Attached to the Right and Forge Cottage with Attached Former Forge, PL30 4HB
- OS grid reference
- SX 156 690
- Coordinates
- 50.49179, -4.59979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pixie Nook is a row of three houses with an attached former forge, likely dating from the 18th century, with additions and alterations made in the mid-19th century and some 20th-century changes. The construction is of slatestone and granite rubble, with slate roofs featuring ridge tiles and gable ends. Chimneys include gable-end stacks with rubble shafts and shaped tops, and an axial stack to the central house with a cornice and shaped top.
Pixie Nook, the left-hand house, is of a simple one-room plan, with a direct entrance into the room which is heated by an axial stack to the left. Forge Cottage, attached to the right, is slightly larger and also of a one-room plan, heated by a gable-end stack. A single-storey range of outbuildings connects Forge Cottage to the forge, which is situated to the front right. The forge itself is a small single-storey building with a hipped roof to the left and a gable to the right, with rubble-shafted stacks at each end.
Pixie Nook is a two-storey building with a two-light, two-pane casement window on both the ground and first floors; a half-glazed door with a pitched hood is to the right. The left end is partly slate-hung and has a single-storey outshut to the rear. The central house is also two stories high, featuring a two-light, three-pane casement window with a granite lintel on the ground floor, a plain door within a wooden gabled porch, and a two-light, two-pane casement window on the first floor. Forge Cottage has a slightly higher roofline and two windows. The first floor has two-light casements, while the ground floor has a half-glazed door and a two-light casement set within a 20th-century glazed lean-to. Attached to the front-right of Forge Cottage is a single-storey addition with a two-light casement window on the inner side and a gable-end stack with a brick shaft. A single-storey lean-to is situated in the angle between the outhouse and the forge. The forge itself has a stable door and a two-light casement under a timber lintel. A 20th-century addition is present at the rear of Forge Cottage. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Pixie Nook, House Attached to the Right and Forge Cottage with Attached Former Forge 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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