The Smugglers House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1964. House, cafe. 1 related planning application.
The Smugglers House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-forge-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1964
- Type
- House, cafe
- Address
- The Smugglers House, Smugglers Cottage, Quay Road, Polperro, PL13 2QZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 208 509
- Coordinates
- 50.33105, -4.51783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smugglers House is a two-house dwelling, later used as a cafe and now again a house, likely dating from the 18th century, although it is believed by some to be from the 17th century. The building is constructed of rendered and painted stone rubble, with some slate hanging above the ground floor on a projecting wing. The roof is of asbestos slate, with gabled ends and a hipped projecting wing to the front. Originally, the plan was likely a single depth of two rooms, with the projecting wing forming an ‘L’ shape. It is thought the projecting wing was originally open on the ground floor. The main range to the left has a 20th-century window with glazing bars and a 20th-century glazed door, with a 19th-century two-light casement window above it, also with glazing bars. The projecting wing to the right has a 20th-century window in its side wall. A 12-pane window is visible on the side wall of the projecting wing, positioned above the ground floor and supported on imitation stone-clad piers. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Smugglers House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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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