House Directly to Front of Merlin's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. House.
House Directly to Front of Merlin's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-pewter-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- House Directly to Front of Merlin's Cottage, Altarnun
- OS grid reference
- SX 223 811
- Coordinates
- 50.60329, -4.5114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a house located directly in front of Merlin's Cottage, dating from around the mid-18th century. It is constructed of stone rubble, which is rendered and painted on the front, and features a rag slate roof with gable ends and stone rubble end stacks.
The house has a two-room layout with a cross or through passage. The smaller room is on the left side and is heated by an end stack, while the larger room on the right is also heated by an end stack.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has three windows. There is a 19th-century panelled door with a rectangular fanlight located to the left of centre. To the left, there are 20th-century bay windows, and to the right, there are two similar windows. On the first floor, there are three 4 over 8 pane sash windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
House Directly to Front of Merlin's 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
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- 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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