Content Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1964. Cottage.
Content Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-iron-moss
- 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
- Content Cottage, the Warren, Polperro
- OS grid reference
- SX 211 509
- Coordinates
- 50.33115, -4.51487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Content Cottage is a terraced cottage dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of painted stone rubble and features a slate roof. The cottage has a large stone rubble chimney stack on the left-hand gable end and a rendered brick chimney stack on the right-hand hipped end. It has a one-room plan and is situated at the end of the terrace with the entrance on the right. Built into the side of a hill on solid rock, the cottage has a three-storey front with a single window that overlooks the harbour. The ground floor has a tall 20th-century PVC window to the left, which includes glazing bars, and a 20th-century lean-to stone rubble porch to the right. Above, there are 20th-century PVC two-light casements with glazing bars in the original window openings on the first and second floors. The interior has not been inspected. The cottage is included for its group value with nearby buildings.
Local climate
Content 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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