The White Seat is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Monument/seat.
The White Seat
- WRENN ID
- leaning-pier-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Monument/seat
- Address
- The White Seat, Maker-With-Rame
- OS grid reference
- SX 450 523
- Coordinates
- 50.35089, -4.17874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Seat, also known as Harbour View Seat, is an 18th-century seat located in Edgcumbe Country Park. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with a rendered rear wall. The structure is rectangular with an open front facing north, providing a view over Plymouth Sound. It may have originally had a roof. The rear and side walls feature a plaster moulded cornice, and the rear wall is rendered. Two granite steps lead up to the platform, which has sockets along the top step, suggesting it may have once had rails to piers along the front. The seat is approximately 5 metres wide. Rev. Shaw, in his 1788 work "Early Tours of Devon and Cornwall," described it as "the White alcove on the drywalks," noting its beautiful perspective up the harbour. It is possible that the White Seat was originally painted white.
Local climate
The White Seat sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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