Harbour Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1962. A C18 Residential.

Harbour Cottage

WRENN ID
twisted-pilaster-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1962
Type
Residential
Address
Harbour Cottage, the Harbour, Forrabury and Minster
OS grid reference
SX 096 913
Coordinates
50.69047, -4.69597
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Harbour Cottage is a building that was originally a net loft and cellar, converted into a private house. It dates from the 18th century and was extended in the mid to late 20th century. The earlier part of the building features painted slate-stone rubble, with some slate hanging on the front gable end. It has a rag slate roof with gable ends and a brick stack on the rear gable end. The cottage is built into the side of a hill, with the ground rising at the back.

The structure has a rectangular plan and a ground floor entrance leading to a store at the front gable end. There is an entrance to the first-floor loft, which is now used as domestic accommodation, on the left side. The building is two storeys high, with the front gabled end facing the harbour. It has double plank doors on the ground floor and a small four-pane window above. The left side elevation is one storey high, featuring a 3 over 6 pane sash window on the left and a part-glazed 19th-century door near the centre, both topped with raked roofs. There is a 19th-century lean-to store on the right. To the right, a range added in the mid to late 20th century consists of a slate-hung single-storey section, raised on concrete piers with car parking underneath. The front and left side elevations present a picturesque appearance.

Local climate

Harbour 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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