America is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Cottages.
America
- WRENN ID
- silent-vestry-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1988
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- America, St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
- OS grid reference
- SW 422 252
- Coordinates
- 50.07179, -5.6041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
America consists of two adjoining cottages built around the early 19th century, with an extension added around 1910. The cottages feature granite rubble walls with granite dressings and a grouted scantle slate roof with gable ends, along with five gabled dormers at the front. Brick chimneys are located over the original gable ends and the right-hand gable end of the 1910 addition. The property has cast-iron ogee-section gutters and cast-iron downpipes.
The layout is a long rectangular plan with later single-storey lean-tos at the rear. The original house on the left has a two-room plan, likely with a lobby entrance and stairs between the rooms. The 1910 house on the right has a similar but wider layout. The exterior is two storeys high with an overall five-window range. The original house on the left has a nearly symmetrical two-window front, with a doorway centrally located. It features an old four-panel door. The right side has a wider three-window front with an original 1910 ledged door and overlight. The windows, likely from 1910, are horned sashes with marginal panes, and the first-floor windows rise above the eaves level, set within stone gables. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
America sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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