Coombe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. A C18 House.
Coombe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-chapel-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Coombe Cottage, Kea
- OS grid reference
- SW 837 408
- Coordinates
- 50.22804, -5.03282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coombe Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of painted slatestone rubble, featuring slate sills and wooden lintels. The roof is made of corrugated asbestos, with brick chimneys positioned over the gable ends but set back from the ends. The layout consists of two equal rooms on either side of a central cross passage leading to the stairs. The building has two storeys and a symmetrical three-window south front with a central doorway. There is an early 20th-century glazed gabled porch with a shaped bargeboard and marginal panes on the door and windows. The main windows are 16-pane horned sashes. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is reported to be little altered. Coombe Cottage appears on a late 18th-century map and is situated in an unspoiled and beautiful valley overlooking Cowlands Creek, forming part of a group of houses that have mostly remained unchanged since the 18th and early to mid-19th centuries.
Local climate
Coombe Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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