The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- slow-arch-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, Higher Market Street, Looe
- OS grid reference
- SX 255 532
- Coordinates
- 50.35328, -4.45341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a town house dating to circa 1700, with restoration work carried out in 1986. It is constructed of render over rubble, with a steep asbestos slate roof and cast-iron ogee gutter; raking dormers are situated over the second-floor windows. The building follows a double-depth plan, with a rear wing on the right. It rises three storeys, with the second floor partly within the roof space, and has a two-window range. Early 19th-century hornless sash windows with glazing bars are present. The ground floor features a widened central doorway (previously with a wooden doorcase) and flanking 20th-century shop windows. The interior ground floor has been altered in the 20th century; the remainder of the interior was not inspected. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
The Old House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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