Tea Rooms and Two Cottages Adjoining on East is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1988. A C17-C18 Tea rooms, cottages.

Tea Rooms and Two Cottages Adjoining on East

WRENN ID
lapsed-glass-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1988
Type
Tea rooms, cottages
OS grid reference
SX 039 710
Coordinates
50.50678, -4.76617
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building consists of tea rooms and two cottages on the east side, likely originating as stables with the cottages added later. The stables were once partly used as a laundry but are now functioning as tea rooms. This structure dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century, while the cottages were added in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with brick vaulting inside and features a rag slate roof with hipped and gable ends, along with brick axial and end stacks.

The layout includes an earlier range on the left, which has tea rooms at the front and a disused laundry at the rear. The original purpose is uncertain, but it is possible that it served as stables. The right-hand room, which continues undivided from front to rear, has a groin-vaulted ceiling of particularly fine quality brick. To the right are two double-depth, two-room cottages, each with entrances on the left and a front room on the right, heated by an axial and end stack.

The exterior is two storeys high with a regular three-one-one window arrangement featuring dressed stone segmental arches. The tea rooms on the left have an almost symmetrical three-window front, with a gable that contains a clock above the central bay and a central louvred cupola topped with a weather vane, the fox being a 20th-century reproduction. The central part has a glazed door flanked by a mullion and transom window on the left and a two-light casement on the right. Above, there are two mullion and transom windows with a two-light casement to the right. The two cottages to the left each have a 19th-century six-panelled door and a three-light casement with a three-light casement above. The side and rear elevations feature mullion and transom windows, with at least one window dating from the late 17th century and others being 20th-century replacements that follow the earlier pattern. The 17th-century windows may have been reused, possibly originally from Pencarrow House.

Inside, the right-hand room of the tea rooms boasts a fine brick groin-vaulted ceiling and a chimney-piece from the early 19th century.

Local climate

Tea Rooms and Two Cottages Adjoining on East sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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