Townsend Cottage and Blue Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. House.

Townsend Cottage and Blue Cottage

WRENN ID
riven-floor-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1986
Type
House
Address
Townsend Cottage and Blue Cottage, La Feock
OS grid reference
SW 821 386
Coordinates
50.20728, -5.05414
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Townsend Cottage and Blue Cottage are two adjoining houses built around the early to mid-18th century. They are constructed from slatestone rubble, which is partly painted, and feature an asbestos slate roof with a brick axial chimney and brick chimneys over large external gable breasts. Townsend Cottage, located on the left (south), originally had a one-room plan but has been altered to a two-room plan. Blue Cottage has a two-room plan with a central entrance. The buildings are two storeys high.

The original three-window front has been modified to include four windows. Townsend Cottage features a four-pane, two-light casement window, which was inserted around 1900, located above and to the right of the doorway. The remaining windows are wide, ten-paned horned sashes in their original openings. The entrance to Townsend Cottage is on the right, set within a gabled glazed porch that has a four-panel door. Blue Cottage has a nearly symmetrical front with a central doorway located within a small 20th-century gabled porch that features a top-glazed door. Inside Blue Cottage, there is a large fireplace that includes a cloam oven.

Local climate

Townsend Cottage and Blue Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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