Paradise Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Paradise Cottage

WRENN ID
weathered-tracery-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Paradise Cottage, St. Ervan, PL27 7SS
OS grid reference
SW 897 702
Coordinates
50.49459, -4.96637
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Paradise Cottage is a cottage dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of slate rubble with a scantle slate roof covered in slate tiles and red clay ridge tiles. A brick gable end stack, partly rebuilt, is visible on the right-hand side.

The cottage was originally planned as a single-depth, two-room structure, with a central entrance and a heating stack for each room. A single-storey extension was added to the rear, to the left and centre, in the mid to late 20th century.

The front of the cottage presents a symmetrical three-window facade. The windows have slate sills and wooden lintels. The first floor has a 19th-century 16-pane two-light casement in the centre, flanked by two 20th-century four-pane casements. On the ground floor are two larger 20th-century four-pane sashes, and a central doorway with a gabled porch featuring slate sides and a 20th-century glazed door. The rear elevation includes a 19th-century casement window on the first floor, and a roughcast 20th-century extension with a flat roof. The interior of the cottage was not inspected.

Local climate

Paradise Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • 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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