Shepherd's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. House.
Shepherd's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-string-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shepherd's Cottage, St. Germans
- OS grid reference
- SX 351 589
- Coordinates
- 50.40745, -4.32097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherd's Cottage is a house built in the mid-19th century, incorporating materials from the mid-17th century, with few later alterations. It is constructed of slatestone rubble, partly slate-hung, with granite dressings and slatestone quoins. The slate roof features ridge tiles and gable ends, along with gable end stacks that have rubble shafts.
The house has a two-room plan with a central porch entrance. It is two storeys high and has a symmetrical two-window front with a central two-storey porch. The gabled porch features a wide, four-centred arched granite doorway from the mid-17th century, complete with roll mouldings and recessed spandrels that have carved leaves. The inner door is plain. On the first floor, there is a 17th-century three-light granite casement window with chamfered mullions and a drip mould. At the ground floor, there are three-light, three-pane casement windows on both the left and right sides, each with greenstone heads, and similar casements on the first floor. The left and right sides of the cottage are blind. The rear is slate-hung and has a three-light casement window on the ground floor to the left, featuring L hinges, along with a single-storey 20th-century addition that includes a door. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Shepherd's Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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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