May Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
May Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- May Cottage, Fore Street, Forrabury and Minster, PL35 0AU
- OS grid reference
- SX 099 907
- Coordinates
- 50.68554, -4.69175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Cottage is a house dating to around the 18th century, located on the east side of Fore Street in Boscastle. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble, with a rag slate roof, gable ends, and a rendered brick stack on the left-hand gable. The house likely originally had two rooms, each heated by end stacks. The front facade is symmetrical and features two windows. A circa 19th century rendered stone rubble porch with a gable has a 19th century four-panel door. There are 12-pane horned sash windows to the right and left of the porch. The first floor has two late 19th or early 20th century two-light casements with glazing bars. The interior is not accessible. May Cottage is part of a group of buildings on the east side of Fore Street.
Local climate
May Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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