Top Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Farmhouse, farmworker's house. 1 related planning application.
Top Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-sentry-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse, farmworker's house
- Address
- Top Cottage, St. Levan, TR19 6LZ
- OS grid reference
- SW 377 248
- Coordinates
- 50.0661, -5.66589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Cottage is a small farmhouse or farmworker’s house dating from around the early 19th century. It is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings, and has a scantle slate roof covered in grout, featuring brick chimneys on the gable ends. One chimney is situated over a large, outwardly projecting chimney breast. The house originally comprised two rooms, a parlour on the left and a kitchen on the right, with a lobby and staircase situated between them. A lean-to addition was later added to the right side. The exterior of the building retains its original appearance and openings. The west-facing front has a symmetrical design with two window bays and a central doorway. The doorway has a 20th-century ledged door, and there are four-pane, horned sash windows, dating from around the late 19th century. Top Cottage forms part of an unspoiled hamlet containing a selection of farmhouses and farm buildings all set within a rural landscape.
Local climate
Top Cottage 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Western Farmhouse, Including Front Garden Walls, Gate-Piers and Gate
- Tregothal Cottage
- Mowhay including front garden walls and gate piers
- Barn Immediately North of Trebehor Old Farmhouse
- Cartshed immediately west of Mowhay
- Building immediately south east of Mowhay
- Cartshed Immediately East of Trebehor Farm Cottage
- Trebehor Farm Cottage Including Front Garden Walls, Gate-Piers and Gate
- Gilley
- Mount Whistle Cottage