Former Church Cove lifeboat house is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1984. House.

Former Church Cove lifeboat house

WRENN ID
forbidden-portal-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 October 1984
Type
House
Address
Former Church Cove lifeboat house, Landewednack
OS grid reference
SW 714 127
Coordinates
49.9712, -5.18849
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Church Cove lifeboat house, now a dwelling, was built in 1887. It features an inscription that reads: "Erected and presented to Royal National Lifeboat Institution in memory of T and H S Chavasse and Rev and M C Chavasse."

The building is constructed of rubble stone with granite quoins, lintels, and dressings, topped with a slate roof. It has a rectangular shape, oriented north-south, with double doors located in the north gable.

On the exterior, terracotta roundels are positioned beside the doors, and there is an inscription above them. A single narrow glazed light is found below the apex of the gable. The south gable includes a ground floor entrance door and a tall narrow window, with a single light without glazing bars to the right. Another narrow glazed light is located below the apex of this gable. The east elevation, which faces the sea, features three narrow lights with 20th-century casement windows that have glazing bars, along with two 20th-century horizontal windows directly beneath the eaves.

The interior was not inspected. This building is included for its group value with the cellars nearby.

Local climate

Former Church Cove lifeboat house receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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