Wayside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1964. House. 3 related planning applications.
Wayside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-niche-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1964
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wayside Cottage, Talland Hill, Polperro, PL13 2RX
- OS grid reference
- SX 208 510
- Coordinates
- 50.33207, -4.51808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wayside Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century, located on the north west side of Talland Mill, near Polperro. The construction is of stone rubble, with the front elevation painted. It has a slate roof with gable ends and brick chimney stacks, one of which projects from the left-hand gable. The house has a single-depth plan of two rooms with a cross passage. A further entrance is located on the first floor, accessed from a higher point on the right-hand gable end, due to the rising ground level. The cottage is built into the side of a hill, with the ground also rising to the rear.
Externally, it is three storeys and has a regular two-window façade. The ground floor features a 19th-century two-light casement window with glazing bars to the left, and a four-panel door within an open porch with a slate hood. A 9-pane casement window occupies a blocked entrance, alongside a 19th-century casement window with differing glazing bars on the first floor, incorporating two original 12-pane sashes without horns, set beneath brick segmental arches. Above these are two further 19th-century 12-pane sashes.
The interior contains 19th-century joinery. The exterior of the cottage remains unspoilt and unaltered.
Local climate
Wayside Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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