Pixie Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. Shop.
Pixie Shop
- WRENN ID
- mired-porch-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1987
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Pixie Shop, the Harbour, Forrabury and Minster
- OS grid reference
- SX 097 913
- Coordinates
- 50.69066, -4.69539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pixie Shop is a building located in Forrabury and the Harbour, Boscastle. It was originally stables, later converted into pighouses, and then transformed into a shop around the early 19th century, with the shop conversion completed in 1957. The structure is made of painted and rendered slate-stone rubble, topped with a rag slate roof featuring gable ends.
The building has a rectangular plan. Originally, there was an entrance in the left gable end and a loft entrance in the right gable end, as the ground rises to the right. However, when it was converted into a shop, a new entrance was added in the center of the front elevation. The front is symmetrical, featuring two granite window openings with 2-centred arches flanking the central door. All openings on the front are later alterations, and there are plank doors in both the left and right gable ends. This picturesque building is situated on the north side of Boscastle harbour.
Local climate
Pixie Shop 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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