Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-pillar-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, Kea, TR3 6AE
- OS grid reference
- SW 809 426
- Coordinates
- 50.24321, -5.07382
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a circa 1849 school house, now a private house. It is constructed of shale rubble walls with granite quoins, jambstones, mullions, lintels, and arch stones. The roof is steeply pitched, covered in Delabole slate, with wide eaves and verges to the north and south gable ends, and a roof dormer to the east featuring shaped barge boards. A stone external stack is located towards the south end of the east wall. The building follows a two-room plan with a central vestibule and stair. The architectural style is Late Gothic. It is two storeys high, with first-floor rooms largely within the roof space.
The east-facing entrance front has a pointed, chamfered doorway in the middle, with an original ledged and braced door and strap hinges. A chimney is positioned to the left, featuring steep granite weatherings. A three-light, chamfered, flat-headed mullioned window is to the right, with a relieving arch. A similar window is located in the roof dormer above. Similar ground and first-floor windows are present on the south gable end. A small 20th-century extension has been added to the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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