Cornish Arms Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House.
Cornish Arms Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-step-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cornish Arms Cottage, Fore Street, Looe
- OS grid reference
- SX 252 532
- Coordinates
- 50.35287, -4.45725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cornish Arms Cottage is a house originally built as a detached structure in the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The exterior features pebbledash over a timber frame, with string courses on the front and a dry slate hipped roof that has a wide front gable on the right side. There is a large rubble stack at the rear. The building has a single-depth plan that has been extended to a double-depth layout, with a probable parlour wing extension on the left and an early 19th-century wing at the rear left.
The cottage has two storeys plus an attic on the right side and an irregular two-window range. The windows are from the 20th century. A late 19th-century gable-fronted open porch with a shaped bargeboard leads to a late 19th-century four-panel door. On the first floor of the right-hand return, there is a rare original single-light round-arched window made from a single piece of oak. The left-hand return of the front range is blind, while the wing features an early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash window in the centre of the first floor and a doorway with a ledged door on the right. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
Cornish Arms 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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