House Between Sunny Corner Cottage and Watchmans Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1964. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
House Between Sunny Corner Cottage and Watchmans Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-bastion-scarlet
- 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
- House Between Sunny Corner Cottage and Watchmans Cottage, the Warren, Polperro, PL13 2RD
- OS grid reference
- SX 210 509
- Coordinates
- 50.33166, -4.51618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a cottage located between Sunny Corner Cottage and Watchmans Cottage in Polperro, dating from around the mid-18th century. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and features a scantle slate roof with gable ends. A large stone rubble chimney stack is situated on the right-hand gable end. The cottage has a one-room plan with the entrance on the left side, built into the side of a steep hill. It has two storeys and an attic, with steps leading up to the entrance. The front is asymmetrical with a single window layout. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century partly glazed door on the left and a 4-pane sash window to the right. Above, in the center, is a 19th-century 4-pane sash window, and there is a large 20th-century flat roof dormer. The interior has not been inspected. This cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
House Between Sunny Corner Cottage and Watchmans 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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