The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-keystone-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Sennen, TR19 7DA
- OS grid reference
- SW 350 262
- Coordinates
- 50.07735, -5.70517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a late 17th or early 18th century cottage, constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings. It has a wheat-reed thatched roof and an original granite chimney situated over the shared wall on the left-hand side, with a gable end on the right. Originally, the cottage comprised two ground floor rooms and chambers located mostly within the roof space. A later service room was built at right angles, situated behind the left-hand side. The south front features ground floor openings only, including a small window on the left and a doorway positioned right of the middle. Inside, original 18th century ceiling beams are present, along with an original hardwood roof structure incorporating pegged collars and apices. A large fireplace is found in the left-hand room.
Local climate
The Old Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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 1999
- 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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