Martins Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. House.
Martins Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-iron-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Martins Cottage, St. Dominick
- OS grid reference
- SX 417 674
- Coordinates
- 50.48507, -4.23178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Martins Cottage is a house with a former shop attached to the rear, dating from the mid-19th century, with a shop addition from the later 19th century and a few later alterations. The building is constructed of slatestone rubble, with some slate-hung sections, and features a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. It has gable end stacks with rubble shafts.
The house has a two-room plan with a central entrance, and each room is heated from a gable end stack. To the left, there is a single-storey addition, while at the rear, a two-storey one-room plan addition was made to the centre, which serves as the shop entrance on the left side.
The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical two-window front, where the upper level is slate-hung. On both the ground and first floors, there are 19th-century 16-pane sash windows with dripstones above the ground floor windows. The central porch is open-fronted with a pitched roof and features an inner half-glazed margin-glazed door. The single-storey addition to the left has a three-light casement window and a plain door, along with a gable end stack to the left. The left side of the house has an external rubble stack. At the rear, the main house includes a two-light casement window on both the ground and first floors to the right, while the rear of the single-storey addition has a two-light casement. The two-storey rear wing features a door with cover strips and a pitched hood, which is continuous with the hood over the door of Well Cottage. There is a large six-pane light on the ground floor to the right for the shop, and a two-light casement on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Martins Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 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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