Postmans and the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1989. Pair of cottages.
Postmans and the Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-solder-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1989
- Type
- Pair of cottages
- Address
- Postmans and the Cottage, North Hill
- OS grid reference
- SX 262 770
- Coordinates
- 50.56765, -4.4553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Postmans and The Cottage is a pair of cottages, likely built in the 18th century, with extensions added in the mid to late 20th century. They are constructed from stone rubble with granite quoins and feature a steeply pitched slate roof with hipped ends and a gable end at the front. The original design has an overall 'T' shape, consisting of two one-room plan cottages that likely had entrances on the left and right sides, leading directly into the main rooms which share a central axial stack. The central projection on the front contains the two staircases. The Cottage on the right was extended at the rear in the mid to late 20th century.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an almost symmetrical three-window front, with a central gabled full-height stair projection. The two staircases share a central, likely 20th-century, two-light casement window with a dressed stone flat arch and a blind quatrefoil in the gable end. Postmans, on the left, features a probably 20th-century two-light casement on the ground floor and a 19th-century two-light casement on the first floor. The Cottage on the right has a similar window arrangement and also includes a 20th-century extension to the rear. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have a similar design to Lemarne, Mill Cottage, and Lower Mill Cottage.
Local climate
Postmans and the 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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