Huer's House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. House.
Huer's House
- WRENN ID
- buried-foundation-sable
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Huer's House, Newquay
- OS grid reference
- SW 806 623
- Coordinates
- 50.42027, -5.08896
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Huer's House is a building that likely dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century, with few later alterations. It is constructed of painted stone rubble and features a stone roof, along with a large stack that has a rubble shaft.
The building is a small single-storey structure, roughly circular in shape, with an external stair at the rear. The tower serves as a stack that heats the room, which is open at the front facing the sea.
The exterior is single-storey and includes battlements. The front side facing the road has an external stair. The left side features a central window with a triangular head and a hood mould, flanked by diamond-shaped openings that are deeply splayed with small inner openings. The right side has a pointed arched light set in a raised surround, along with a similar diamond-shaped opening to the right and a blocked window with a cill and dripstone to the left. The rear side, which faces the sea, has splayed walls on either side of a wide opening. All windows are unglazed, and the external stair leads to the roof.
Inside, the fireplace is partly blocked. The previously blocked window once had a mullion with two unglazed lights.
Huer's House was historically used as a lookout for shoals of pilchards.
Local climate
Huer's House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% 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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