The Old Cellars is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1984. Commercial.
The Old Cellars
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-copper-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1984
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- The Old Cellars, Grade-Ruan
- OS grid reference
- SW 721 145
- Coordinates
- 49.9876, -5.17976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cellars is a Grade II listed building located in Grade-Ruan, Cadgwith. Originally fish cellars used for pilchard storage, it has been converted into a restaurant with a small cottage to the west. The structure features random rubble walls, which are partly whitewashed, and timber boarding on the first floor of the north-east block. The roofs are made of slurried scantle slate, with gabled roofs and a hipped roof on the south side. Brick chimneys are positioned on the gabled ends of the north-east block.
The building consists of a two-storey range to the north-east, with a courtyard in front. There is a single-storey block with a central entrance on the south-east, along with two single-storey wings to the north-west and south-west, which have open fronts leading to yards. The roofs of these wings are supported by square granite posts. A two-storey corner on the west is part of the adjoining cottage. The courtyard has a sloping cobbled floor designed with a channel to collect oil and salt from the pressed pilchards. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Old Cellars receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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.
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