Port Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Port Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-keystone-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Port Cottage, 6, Boase Street, Penzance, TR18 5JE
- OS grid reference
- SW 463 284
- Coordinates
- 50.1022, -5.54868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage located on Newlyn Boase Street. It is constructed of whitened rubble and is two storeys high. The front has two windows, each with sliding casement frames and glazing bars. A modern glazed door is centrally positioned. The roof is slate and features gable ends.
Local climate
Port Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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