Dolphs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. A C18 Cottage.
Dolphs Cottage
- WRENN ID
- noble-lancet-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dolphs Cottage, Custom House Hill, Fowey, PL23 1AB
- OS grid reference
- SX 126 518
- Coordinates
- 50.33666, -4.63361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolphs Cottage is a late 18th-century building located on Custom House Hill in Fowey. It is constructed of stone rubble and is colorwashed. The cottage has two storeys and an attic, featuring two sash windows that do not have glazing bars. A wide modern dormer is present on the roof, which is slate with gable ends. There are steps leading up to a central door that is sheltered by a modern porch canopy. Dolphs Cottage is included in a group listing with Nos 2 and 4, highlighting its group value.
Local climate
Dolphs Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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