Restormel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. House.

Restormel Cottage

WRENN ID
keen-terrace-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 August 1987
Type
House
Address
Restormel Cottage, Lostwithiel
OS grid reference
SX 111 613
Coordinates
50.42127, -4.65934
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Restormel Cottage is a house dating from around 1800, with few later alterations. It features a front made of slatestone rubble that is rendered, with a re-used granite doorway. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, and there are two stacks located at the rear. The layout consists of a two-room plan with a central entrance and a two-storey service wing at the rear, which has a one-room plan. Each of the front rooms is heated by a stack at the rear. The house is designed in a Gothic style.

The building is two storeys high and has two windows on the front. The ground floor features a central doorway with a four-centred arch, made of chamfered granite, and includes a four-panelled door with a fanlight above. There are round-arched windows on either side of the doorway, which have Y-tracery and three-pane casements. On the first floor, there are two two-light casements with toplights and a small circular light in the centre. The parapet wall slopes down to the right and left, about one metre high.

The right side of the cottage has a ground floor window similar to those on the front, and a first floor two-light casement with a segmental head to the toplight. The left side features a buttress and a single-storey lean-to at the ground floor, with a similar two-light casement on the first floor. The rear of the building has a gabled two-storey wing with brick quoins, a two-light casement on both the ground and first floors with brick surrounds, a 20th-century single light window at the ground floor on the left side, and another two-light casement at the ground floor on the rear right. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Restormel Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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