Fairmaids Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Fairmaids Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-steeple-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fairmaids Cottage, Keigwin Place, Penzance, TR19 6RR
- OS grid reference
- SW 468 262
- Coordinates
- 50.08259, -5.53957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairmaids Cottage is likely late 18th century. It is constructed of granite rubble with a slate roof featuring gabled and half-hipped ends. The building is a long, single-range structure with five windows on each floor. The windows are modern sashes, lacking original glazing bars. Two external flights of steps, each with simple iron railings, lead to the first-floor doorways. The cottage is included on the heritage register for its group value, forming part of a group with Commander England Ltd and Stella-Maris on Grenfell Street.
Local climate
Fairmaids Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- 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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