Mevagissey Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1976. Museum. 11 related planning applications.
Mevagissey Museum
- WRENN ID
- tenth-banister-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1976
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Mevagissey Museum, the Quay, PL26 6QQ
- OS grid reference
- SX 016 448
- Coordinates
- 50.27011, -4.78428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mevagissey Museum, located on The Quay in Mevagissey, is an 18th-century building, reportedly constructed in 1745 as part of a shipbuilding yard. The building is situated against a rock face and adjoins later structures. It has a boarded front and a single-pitched roof with shaped brackets to the eaves. It is two storeys high and four bays wide, with seven alternately larger and smaller windows on the first floor, all containing glazing bars. The ground floor is largely concealed by a modern garage. Inside, the roof is supported by three timber posts or masts, and the upper storey is supported by stone piers featuring small niches for lamps. The museum contains what is believed to be the original hand-turned wheel lathe.
Local climate
Mevagissey Museum receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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 0.2°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 — 8 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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