Rock A Bye Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1993. Town house.
Rock A Bye Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-chalk-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1993
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Rock A Bye Cottage, Lower Market Street, Looe, PL13 1AX
- OS grid reference
- SX 255 532
- Coordinates
- 50.35292, -4.4533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock-a-Bye Cottage is a town house located at the end of a row in East Looe, likely dating from the 17th century. It features a rendered finish on rubble walls and has a steep asbestos slate roof with a 20th-century dormer window on the left side. The building has a shallow-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with an irregular one-window range.
On the second floor to the right, there is an early 19th-century nine-pane sash window. The first floor has a 16-pane, two-light casement window towards the left, while the ground floor features a similar 12-pane casement window on the left and a central doorway with a 20th-century door. The right-hand return of the cottage likely includes an oven projection. At the rear, there is a 20th-century central window on the first floor, along with a 12-pane casement window on the left and a four-pane casement window on the right on the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected but is expected to be of interest.
Local climate
Rock A Bye Cottage 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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