Elm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. House.
Elm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-screen-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm Cottage, Fore Street, Forrabury and Minster
- OS grid reference
- SX 099 908
- Coordinates
- 50.68577, -4.69191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, constructed of rendered and painted stone rubble and cob, topped with a rag slate roof featuring gable ends. It has a stone rubble stack at the right gable end and a brick stack that heats the left room of a rear outshot.
The layout consists of two rooms and a cross passage, likely with a larger kitchen on the right and a smaller room on the left, both heated by gable end stacks. A late 18th-century outshot has been added across the rear, probably containing a kitchen on the left, heated by an end stack, and a dairy on the right.
The house is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front featuring two windows. On the ground floor, there is a 19th-century four-pane sash window on the left, a partly glazed 20th-century door to the left of centre, and a wide 19th-century two-light horizontal sliding sash window with eight panes on the right. The first floor has two 19th-century four-pane sash windows.
Inside, there is an 18th-century two-panel door in the left room, which also has a 20th-century grate. The interior was not accessible at the time of inspection.
Local climate
Elm Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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 0.3°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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