Gill's Karen's Kitchen is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. House, restaurant, shop.
Gill's Karen's Kitchen
- WRENN ID
- roaming-flagstone-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- House, restaurant, shop
- Address
- Gill's Karen's Kitchen, Garrett Street, Maker-With-Rame
- OS grid reference
- SX 434 504
- Coordinates
- 50.3327, -4.20151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Karen's Kitchen and Gill's is a house with an integral stable on the left, now functioning as a restaurant and shop. It dates from around 1800, with the ground floor of the house on the right altered for a shop in the mid-19th century, along with later 20th-century modifications. The building is constructed of red sandstone ashlar with a slate roof, and the front area features Devonian limestone, which was formerly enclosed by railings.
Originally, the structure had a double depth plan with one front room on each side of a central entrance, and the stable on the left had a wide entrance. The ground floor was modified in the mid-19th century to create a double shop with central paired splayed entrances. The building stands three storeys high on a plinth and has four windows, all of which are 20th-century replacements featuring voussoirs.
On the left side, there is a 20th-century glazed front and door, with pintles remaining from the former stable entry. On the right, the paired 19th-century shop front includes a moulded fascia and two canted bays with a recessed triangular entrance, featuring a pair of half-glazed doors supported by acanthus consoles. The building also has V-jointed rusticated quoins and band courses.
Inside, there is a former doorway between the stable and the house at the rear right of the stable, and a 20th-century stair located at the rear right. The interior of the shop retains 19th-century fittings, including shelves and cupboards, while the rest of the interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gill's Karen's Kitchen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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