Downinney Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
Downinney Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-gutter-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downinney Cottage, Warbstow, PL15 8UR
- OS grid reference
- SX 209 901
- Coordinates
- 50.68384, -4.53586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downinney Cottage is likely a late 17th-century farmhouse, now a private residence. It is constructed of rendered and painted stone rubble and cob, with a rag slate roof featuring a gable end on the left and a hipped end on the right. A stone rubble end stack is situated on the left-hand side. The original plan consisted of two rooms and a cross or through passage. The room to the left was heated by an end stack, while the heating method for the room to the right is uncertain. A circa 19th-century service outshut extends to the rear on the right side, and a probable 20th-century one-room plan wing is attached to the rear on the left side. The two-storey front is almost symmetrical with two windows. A 20th-century part-glazed door, protected by a slate hood, is positioned near the centre, flanked by 19th- or 20th-century two-light casement windows. Similar windows are located on the first floor above. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Downinney Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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