The Flower Pot the Water Rail is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Town house.
The Flower Pot the Water Rail
- WRENN ID
- nether-alcove-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- The Flower Pot the Water Rail, Lower Market Street, Looe, PL13 1AX
- OS grid reference
- SX 255 532
- Coordinates
- 50.35312, -4.45373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Water Rail and The Flower Pot is a small town house located on Lower Market Street in East Looe, dating from the 17th century. It features roughcast render on a steep asbestos slate roof, with an original raking dormer that breaks the eaves on the right side. The building has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall, with the second floor partly in the roof space. The front has a three-window range on the first floor, which includes a narrow central window that was inserted in the 20th century. The windows are primarily 18th century and early 19th century 16-pane hornless sashes, except for a horned copy on the left side of the first floor and an original two-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned window on the right side of the second floor, which is paired with an early 19th century centre-hung casement that has glazing bars. The doorway on the right features an 18th century six-panel door, with all panels later glazed, and is topped by a 20th century slate hood supported by brackets.
Inside, there is a chamfered granite fireplace lintel that has been resited and inverted, chamfered oak ceiling joists, a winder stair on the right, and evidence of a reduced window opening on the front left. The roof structure has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Flower Pot the Water Rail 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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