Penhaligan's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. House.
Penhaligan's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-attic-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Penhaligan's Cottage, Gerrans
- OS grid reference
- SW 866 330
- Coordinates
- 50.15911, -4.98769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penhaligan's Cottage is a small house dating from the 18th century. It features slatestone rubble walls and a wheat reed thatched roof that is hipped to the left, with an external stone stack on the right gable end. The cottage has a two-room plan and stands two storeys tall. The east front is symmetrical with three windows. There is a central 20th-century planked door set in its original opening. The original flanking openings and the first-floor openings on the left and right have oak lintels made from reused ship timber, with randomly spaced treenails. The middle opening on the first floor is from the 20th century. All windows are 20th-century, 12-pane, two-light casements. The large external breast on the right gable includes a projection for a bread oven. The cob rear wall has a small central first-floor window for the stair. The interior has been largely renewed, with a fireplace that is partly blocked and an additional recess near the fireplace in the back wall. There is a raised pavement in front of the house, retained by earth and stone walling.
Local climate
Penhaligan's Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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