Guys Cottage Quin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1987. Cottage.

Guys Cottage Quin Cottage

WRENN ID
shifting-string-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Guys Cottage Quin Cottage, St. Endellion
OS grid reference
SW 971 805
Coordinates
50.58913, -4.86722
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Guys Cottage and Quin Cottage is a pair of cottages, likely remodeled in 1828 by M. Guy, as indicated by a datestone. The cottages are constructed of stone rubble with large dressed quoins on the left side and feature a slate roof with half-hipped ends. There are two axial brick chimney stacks located at the center of the ridge, along with remnants of a truncated stone rubble chimney stack with set-offs on the right-hand side wall.

The plan of the cottages is uncertain, and the right-hand walls suggest significant remodeling and rebuilding of an earlier structure. The current building has a double depth plan with two entrances in altered openings on the front elevation, one on the right and one on the left. It is two stories tall with an attic and presents an asymmetrical four-window front.

On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century stable-type plank doors with timber lintels on either side. Four sash windows are asymmetrically placed between these doors, featuring brick segmental arches with 12- and 16-pane sashes, two of which do not have horns. Above the third window, there is a plaque reading "M GUY 1828."

The masonry below these windows and the embedded timber lintels above indicate several alterations over time. The first floor includes a 12-pane sash window on the left directly below the eaves, along with three 12-pane horned sashes to the right, each with brick segmental arches. There is also a three-light casement window in a full dormer with a raked roof. The interior of the cottages is not accessible.

Local climate

Guys Cottage Quin Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% 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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