The Red Seat is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Summer house. 1 related planning application.
The Red Seat
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-beam-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Summer house
- Address
- The Red Seat, Maker-With-Rame, PL10 1HZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 457 518
- Coordinates
- 50.34611, -4.16908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Seat is a summer house, also known as a kiosk, built around 1836. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and is a single-storey structure with a front viewing room and a shallow rear room, though it is currently roofless. The building has a rectangular plan measuring about 4 metres by 1.5 metres overall, featuring an open front and sides. The front is designed with an arcade of three round arches, flanked by elliptical headed arches on the left and right sides, and two rectangular piers that divide the front arches. The front wall slopes down to the right and left, and there is a granite seat along the rear wall, with a small room at the back.
The Red Seat is part of the Upper Zigzags, a series of formal paths that are terraced into the hillside and cliffs along the coast, located approximately south/southeast of Mount Edgcumbe House. The Upper Zigzags were described in 1836, although they appear on a map from 1756.
Local climate
The Red Seat 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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