Way-Way Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1986. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.

Way-Way Cottage

WRENN ID
proud-kitchen-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1986
Type
House
Address
Way-Way Cottage, Lansallos Street, Polperro, PL13 2QU
OS grid reference
SX 208 509
Coordinates
50.33117, -4.51878
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Way-Way Cottage is a house dating from around the mid-18th century. It is constructed from rendered and painted stone rubble and has an asbestos slate roof with a gable end facing the front. The cottage features a stone rubble chimney stack with a drip course on the front gabled end. It has a small two-room plan with direct entry into the left-hand unheated room, while the right-hand room has a gabled end stack. It is likely that this cottage was built in front of an earlier house, which was divided into two cottages at the same time, known as Hope Cove and the adjoining cottage. The building is two storeys high with the gable end facing the street. On the right side, there is a 20th-century two-light casement window without glazing bars on each floor. The front elevation includes an entrance on the left with a slate canopy and a 20th-century half-glazed door, along with a small blocked window above on the first floor. There is also a partly blocked doorway on the right that has been converted into a window with a single-light two-pane casement. The interior is not accessible.

Local climate

Way-Way Cottage 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
  • 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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