Slipway Cottage and Slipway Directly to South is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1964. Cottage.
Slipway Cottage and Slipway Directly to South
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1964
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Slipway Cottage and Slipway Directly to South, the Warren, Polperro
- OS grid reference
- SX 209 509
- Coordinates
- 50.33163, -4.51688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Slipway Cottage, located on the south side of The Warren in Polperro, is likely a former fish store, net loft, or coal shed that has been converted into a cottage. The building dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of painted and rendered stone rubble with a slate roof featuring gable ends. The internal layout has been altered, and the cottage is single-depth on a steep slope, with one storey facing The Warren and two storeys facing the harbour.
The harbour side of the cottage has an asymmetrical front with five windows, featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The ground floor includes four casements of one and two lights to the left of a stable-type door. Above, there are two smaller casements and three dormers with casement windows. A flight of steps on the right-hand gable end leads up to The Warren, and there is a 20th-century glazed door on the single-storey elevation facing The Warren.
The interior has not been inspected. The cottage is included for its group value, and a stone rubble slipway on the harbour side descends from a small quay between Slipway Cottage and L' Teglios Fish Cellars into the harbour. Early photographs of Polperro harbour show the cottage as a two-storey store with two openings on the first floor.
Local climate
Slipway Cottage and Slipway Directly to South 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
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