Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Lifeboat house, watchtower. 6 related planning applications.
Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower)
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cornice-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lifeboat house, watchtower
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower), Church End, PL13 1BX
- OS grid reference
- SX 256 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35218, -4.45283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed, originally the Looe lifeboat house and watchtower, is a former lifeboat house and watchtower that is now used for commercial purposes. It was built around 1860.
The building is constructed from rubble with granite quoins, red-brick arches, and flush strings. It features dry slate roofs with projecting eaves that have exposed moulded rafter ends and purlins, along with crested red ridge-tiles. The structure has a T-shaped plan and is designed in the Italianate style.
The exterior includes a two-storey tower and a single-storey lifeboat shed. There are round-arched single-light windows, except for a group of three lights on the first floor of the tower. At the rear of the lifeboat house, there is a large three-light transomed window under a segmental arch. The front doorway is also under a similar arch and features an original transomed fanlight above part-glazed doors. The tower gables have oculae.
The interior is simple where it has been inspected.
Local climate
Watch Tower Studio and former Lifeboat Shed (Former Looe lifeboat house and watchtower) 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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