Lower Boswedden is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Lower Boswedden

WRENN ID
spare-oriel-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Lower Boswedden, St. Just
OS grid reference
SW 359 319
Coordinates
50.12857, -5.69528
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Boswedden is an 18th century cottage constructed from dressed granite. It features a steep slate roof with gable ends, one of which has coping. The cottage has brick chimney stacks located over the end walls and stands two storeys high with three windows. The windows are later sashes that do not have glazing bars. There is a central plain doorway. Inside, the cottage includes fielded panel doors, a dog-leg staircase with turned balusters, and square newels.

Local climate

Lower Boswedden sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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