Mount Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1994. House.

Mount Cottage

WRENN ID
sombre-cobble-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1994
Type
House
Address
Mount Cottage, Holman's Place, Porthleven
OS grid reference
SW 629 259
Coordinates
50.08626, -5.31489
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mount Cottage is a village house, probably from the 18th century. It has a rendered exterior, likely over rubble or cob, and features a steep asbestos slate roof with brick end stacks. The building has a shallow-depth plan and stands two storeys tall, with a nearly symmetrical front that includes three windows. The mid-19th century windows are hornless sashes with margin panes. There is a full-width lean-to verandah and a central doorway that has a 20th-century door. At the rear, there are attached lean-to outbuildings on two sides of a courtyard. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to retain most of its original structural and architectural features.

Local climate

Mount Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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