Earth-Closets and Storage Rooms Immediately Behind Ardensawah Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Outbuilding. 1 related planning application.

Earth-Closets and Storage Rooms Immediately Behind Ardensawah Cottages

WRENN ID
crooked-cobble-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
Outbuilding
Address
Earth-Closets and Storage Rooms Immediately Behind Ardensawah Cottages, St. Levan, TR19 6JL
OS grid reference
SW 369 230
Coordinates
50.049, -5.6758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building consists of earth-closets and storage rooms located immediately behind Ardensawah Cottages, dating from the late 19th century. It is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings and features a scantle slate roof with gable ends, topped with original red clay ridge tiles. The structure has a rectangular plan, with an earth-closet at either end and four storage rooms, which may have served as stables, in between. The southwest front is long and low, with six doorways. The earth-closet doorways are positioned at the far left and right, while the other doorways are located on the left side of their respective rooms. The interiors are simply lime-washed, and the earth-closets retain their original wooden seats with lids.

Local climate

Earth-Closets and Storage Rooms Immediately Behind Ardensawah Cottages 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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