Harbour Studio is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1964. A C18 Cottages.
Harbour Studio
- WRENN ID
- quartered-span-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1964
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Harbour Studio, the Warren, Polperro
- OS grid reference
- SX 208 509
- Coordinates
- 50.33146, -4.51815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harbour Studio is a building that was originally two cottages, now combined into one. It likely dates from the mid-18th century and is constructed of painted rendered and plastered stone rubble, with some parts possibly being timber frame. The building has a slate roof with gable ends, and the left-hand range has a slightly lower roof. A brick chimney stack is located between the two ranges.
The studio is built into the side of a hill, featuring a single-storey elevation facing The Warren and a two-storey elevation towards the Harbour. The front wall originally rose from the stone rubble harbour walls. The harbour side consists of two ranges. The right-hand range has an asymmetrical front with three windows; the first floor jetties out over the ground floor, which has two 20th-century two-light casements and a 20th-century door in a porch on the right. The first floor has a 20th-century double two-light casement on the left and two 19th-century two-light casements on the right, all with glazing bars.
The left-hand range has a symmetrical two-window front with 20th-century two-light casements in openings that have been extended at the base. There is one opening in the centre on the ground floor and two above. The elevation facing The Warren features 20th-century window openings. The interior has not been inspected.
A 20th-century balcony has been added on the harbour side, cantilevered out on the ground floor with metal railings. A photograph from the turn of the 19th century shows Harbour Studio with a simple, regular two-storey elevation towards the harbour. The right-hand range had no window openings on the ground floor and two regular two-light casements in the jettied first floor, while the left-hand range's fenestration pattern remains largely unaltered. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Harbour Studio sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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