Wee Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1964. A C19 Cottage.

Wee Cottage

WRENN ID
dim-terrace-heron
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
Wee Cottage, Little Green, Polperro, PL13 2RF
OS grid reference
SX 208 509
Coordinates
50.33131, -4.51919
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wee Cottage is a cottage that possibly dates from the late 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble, painted on the ground floor, with asbestos slate cladding on the first floor. The roof is made of asbestos slate and features a gabled end. The building likely has a one-room plan that is almost square with a splayed corner. It may have originally served as a later wing to the nearby Demelza or as a separate one-room cottage attached to that earlier house.

The cottage has two storeys and an asymmetrical front with a single window on the right side, which is blank and splayed at the back. The ground floor includes a 20th-century part-glazed door on the left and a four-pane sash window to the right. On the first floor, there is a 20th-century two-light casement window with glazing bars. The side elevation faces a small stream that runs parallel to Lansallos Street. The interior has not been inspected. The cottage is included for its group value.

Local climate

Wee 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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