Cottage to North West of Harbour Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. Cottage.

Cottage to North West of Harbour Cottage

WRENN ID
second-attic-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 July 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Cottage to North West of Harbour Cottage, the Harbour, Forrabury and Minster
OS grid reference
SX 096 913
Coordinates
50.69066, -4.69646
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a cottage located to the northwest of Harbour Cottage in Boscastle, likely originally used in connection with Boscastle harbour. It consists of two cottages that have been converted into one house. The left-hand cottage dates from the early 19th century and was extended with a second cottage on the right in the mid-19th century. The structure is made of rendered and painted stone rubble, topped with a rag slate roof featuring gable ends, and has brick stacks at both ends and one axial stack to the right of center.

The building has a single-depth plan, with the ground rising to the rear and a basement at the front, which was probably used as cellars. The left-hand cottage likely started as a two-room plan, while the right-hand cottage was added later with a one-room plan. In the 20th century, the cottages were converted into a house with a three-room plan on the ground floor, and the entrance is located in the rear elevation. A one-room wing was added to the rear right in the late 20th century.

The house is two storeys tall with a basement and features an asymmetrical five-window front facing the harbour. There are two low plank doors leading to the basement and a shuttered window opening to the right. The ground floor includes a late 19th or early 20th-century two-light casement window and a 19th-century two-light horizontally sliding sash window flanking a small 20th-century window opening. To the right, there are two late 19th or early 20th-century four-pane sash windows. The first floor has two late 19th or early 20th-century two-light casements in gabled half dormers, with two late 19th or early 20th-century four-pane sash windows to the right. There is also a lean-to outshot on the left-hand gable end.

The cottages are particularly prominent in the picturesque harbour of Boscastle.

Local climate

Cottage to North West of Harbour Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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