Cottages Approximately 10 Metres North East of Smithy, Watergate is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Cottage.
Cottages Approximately 10 Metres North East of Smithy, Watergate
- WRENN ID
- spare-foundation-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- SX 143 524
- Coordinates
- 50.34264, -4.61025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are two cottages, now combined into one, located approximately 10 meters northeast of the smithy at Watergate. They date from around the mid-18th century and are built of rubble stone, with the left side plastered and a slate roof featuring gabled ends. The left cottage is slightly lower than the right. There are brick stacks on the left-hand gable end and near the center of the building.
The cottages are two storeys high and have an asymmetrical front with four windows; the left side is set back. On the ground floor, there is a two-light casement window with glazing bars and a 20th-century timber porch topped with a slate lean-to roof. The right side features a 16-pane sash window and another two-light timber casement with single glazing bars. On the first floor, there are four two-light casements, with two on the left that are center-hung and have glazing bars, and two on the right with two panes per light. The right-hand corner of the building is curved, and there is a lean-to structure on the right-hand gable end. The interior has not been inspected, and the cottages are included for their group value.
Local climate
Cottages Approximately 10 Metres North East of Smithy, Watergate 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% 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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