The Wheel House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1964. Cottage.
The Wheel House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-quartz-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1964
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Wheel House, Lansallos Street, Polperro
- OS grid reference
- SX 208 509
- Coordinates
- 50.33109, -4.51813
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wheel House is a cottage built above stables, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from painted stone rubble and features an asbestos slate roof with gable ends and a higher wing at the rear. The cottage has a two-room plan on the first floor, with external stairs leading to a doorway on the right side. Originally, the ground floor housed stables.
The building is two storeys tall, with an asymmetrical three-storey front that has two windows. The ground floor includes a 20th-century glazed porch on the left, which has a rendered base and a slate lean-to roof. The right-hand doorway leads to a store beneath a flight of stone rubble external stairs, which has a landing at the top supported by three timber corbels. This landing also supports a 20th-century glazed porch with a brick base. To the left, there are two 19th-century four-pane sash windows beneath brick segmental arches, while the second floor features smaller 20th-century sash windows. Inside the shop, the ceiling beams are exposed, and there is a blocked fireplace. The upper floors have not been inspected.
Local climate
The Wheel 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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