The Cottage Including Railings to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. House.

The Cottage Including Railings to Front

WRENN ID
plain-groin-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 July 1987
Type
House
Address
The Cottage Including Railings to Front, Mount Pleasant, Forrabury and Minster
OS grid reference
SX 100 905
Coordinates
50.68341, -4.68969
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage, which includes railings at the front, is a house that was converted from a cottage, dating from around the late 18th century, with the cottage section added in the early 19th century. It is constructed from slate stone rubble and features a slate roof with gable ends. There are projecting stone rubble stacks on the gable ends, with brick shafts, and a brick axial stack located to the left of the center.

The house on the right has a two-room plan with a central entrance leading to a wide cross passage that contains an imperial stair at the back. The two rooms are heated by an axial stack on the left and a gable end stack on the right. The cottage, added to the left gable end, has a one-room plan and is heated by a gable end stack, with the entrance leading directly into the ground floor room.

The building is two storeys high and has a regular three-window front. The ground floor features a 19th-century two-light casement window on the left, a 19th-century six-panel door, and two 12-pane sash windows flanking the entrance to the house on the right, which also has a 19th-century six-panel door and a 20th-century part-glazed porch. On the first floor, there is a 19th-century two-light casement window in the cottage to the left, and three 12-pane sash windows above the ground floor openings on the right.

Inside, there is a wide passage with an imperial stair at the rear and four-panel doors with raised and fielded panels leading into the right-hand and central rooms. The right-hand room features a late 18th-century timber chimney-piece with a dentilled cornice and fluted pilasters, and it is lit by a canted bay window. The central room has a late 18th-century chimney-piece and an adjoining china cupboard with three glazed doors that have honeycomb glazing bars. The left-hand room contains a 19th-century timber chimney-piece with corbelled brackets and a slate flag floor. Additionally, cast iron railings enclose the garden at the front.

Local climate

The Cottage Including Railings to Front sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 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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