Up the Creek Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House.
Up the Creek Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-quoin-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Up the Creek Cottage, 4, Church Street, Looe, PL13 2EX
- OS grid reference
- SX 253 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35268, -4.45662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Up the Creek Cottage is a house in a row, likely built in the 18th century. It features a front made of rendered rubble and has a steep, dry slate roof. The building has a shallow-depth plan with a rear wing on the right side. It stands two storeys tall and has a nearly symmetrical two-window front, with the doorway located slightly to the left of centre. The windows and door are from the 20th century, with casements on the first floor and sashes on the ground floor, all featuring glazing bars. The glazed door has a 20th-century copy slate hood above it. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Up the Creek 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
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- 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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