Captains Cabin is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1964. House. 1 related planning application.

Captains Cabin

WRENN ID
half-postern-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 August 1964
Type
House
Address
Captains Cabin, Lansallos Street, Polperro, PL13 2QU
OS grid reference
SX 208 509
Coordinates
50.3313, -4.51879
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Captains Cabin is a house, likely with fish cellars below, that later served as a restaurant and domestic accommodation. It dates from the early 18th century and is constructed of rendered stone rubble with a cement-washed scantle slate roof featuring gable ends and at least one early crested ridge tile. The building has large stone rubble chimney stacks on the gable ends, and there was originally a rear lateral chimney stack that is now blocked with the shaft removed.

The plan has been altered, but the first floor was originally designed with a three-room layout and a cross passage over the fish cellars. The house is three storeys tall with an asymmetrical three-window front. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century 16-pane window on the left next to a part-glazed 20th-century door, both beneath a slate lean-to roof. To the right, there is a 20th-century two-light casement window. Near the center, stone rubble steps lead up to the first floor entrance, which is part glazed and set back beneath a gabled slate porch roof, locally known as an "orrel."

The first floor features openings beneath timber lintels, with a 19th-century two-light casement window to the left, also with glazing bars, and two additional two-light casements to the right. The second floor has two 19th-century gabled dormers with two-light casements that include glazing bars, and to the right, there is a 20th-century raking roof dormer. The interior of the ground floor has been altered, showcasing some heavy reused timber ceiling beams, and the lintels to the fireplaces have been renewed. The first floor retains ceiling beams from the 18th century, while the roof timbers have not been inspected.

Local climate

Captains Cabin 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
  • 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
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