Filkins Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1987. A Late C18 Cottage.

Filkins Cottage

WRENN ID
hallowed-transept-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Filkins Cottage, St. Kew
OS grid reference
SX 033 756
Coordinates
50.54754, -4.77718
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Filkins Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with slate-hung cladding on the front and part of the left-hand gable end. The roof is made of rag slate and features gable ends, along with a truncated projecting stone rubble stack for the hall and kitchen on the left-hand gable end. The cottage has a two-room layout, possibly with a cross passage, where the larger hall and kitchen on the left is heated by the gable end stack, while the unheated room on the right is not.

The building is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window front. On the ground floor, there are two early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash windows with crown glass, and to the right of centre, there is a 20th-century rendered and glazed porch with a part-glazed four-panel door. The first floor features two hornless 8-pane sash windows. There is a lean-to outshut on the left-hand gable end. The interior has not been inspected. Filkins Cottage forms part of a terrace with St Catherines adjoining on the right-hand side.

Local climate

Filkins Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 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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