Workshop Premises of H Hocking and Sons is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1993. Workshop.

Workshop Premises of H Hocking and Sons

WRENN ID
ragged-groin-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 November 1993
Type
Workshop
Address
Workshop Premises of H Hocking and Sons, Tower Hill, Looe
OS grid reference
SX 256 532
Coordinates
50.35328, -4.45282
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The workshop premises of H. Hocking and Sons is an early to mid-19th century building located on Tower Hill in East Looe. It features rubble walls with timber lintels, some vertical boarding, and a rag slate roof. The building is situated on a corner site with a steep slope and has two storeys, presenting an irregular three-window range on the ground floor. The original workshop windows have vertical glazing bars with random panes, and there is one window on the first floor.

On the right side, a bay steps down as the ground floor extends over a basement, featuring a wide window with a boarded apron above the rubble basement, which has a doorway to the right with an old ledged door. The left end of the building has a central first-floor window and a chamfered lintel above a ledged door located to the right on the ground floor. The rear of the building is against a high bank and is accessed at the second-floor level through a wide doorway spanned by a chamfered oak lintel, leading to a pair of possibly reused ledged doors. The right end of the main block has a wide window on the second floor. The interior has not been inspected in detail, but it is noted to have a cobbled floor on the ground floor.

Local climate

Workshop Premises of H Hocking and Sons 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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