The Island Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. A C19 Shop. 3 related planning applications.

The Island Shop

WRENN ID
kindled-flue-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 October 1987
Type
Shop
Address
The Island Shop, St. Michael's Mount, TR17 0HS
OS grid reference
SW 515 300
Coordinates
50.11851, -5.47662
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Island Shop, built around the 1820s, was originally a bird and fish museum with stables located behind it. It is now used as a shop and public conveniences. The building features stuccoed walls and a dry Delabole slate roof with gable ends and a brick chimney over the rear gable end. The layout includes the shop, which was formerly the museum, at the front and a one-room-plan former museum keeper's cottage behind. Attached to the rear gable end is a single-storey, two-bay range of stables that faces into the courtyard on the left, along with a high mounting block against the right-hand wall. Beyond this is a two-storey range, which has been reduced in height and is now used as public conveniences.

The exterior of the building is two storeys high, with a west-facing gable end that features a large segmental-arched doorway on the ground floor and a large round-arched window opening above. The entrance has double top-glazed doors, and there are casement windows with glazing bars. The window above the doorway includes a fanlight over a transom, while the windows in the right side wall have four-centred arched heads. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Island Shop 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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 0.3°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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