Harvey's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Cottage.
Harvey's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-latch-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Harvey's Cottage, Penzance
- OS grid reference
- SW 465 258
- Coordinates
- 50.07849, -5.54428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harvey's Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed from whitewashed rubble, featuring a thatched roof with gable ends that curve over the first-floor windows. The building has two storeys and includes two restored sash windows with glazing bars. A central plain doorway leads to the cottage, which has a modern door. To the left, there is a lean-to roofed with slate. Harvey's Cottage is part of a farmstead group in Raginnis.
Local climate
Harvey's 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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