Ferryman's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Ferryman's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-loft-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ferryman's Cottage, Antony, PL11 2QA
- OS grid reference
- SX 415 568
- Coordinates
- 50.39022, -4.23078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ferryman's Cottage is a house built around 1800, likely based on designs by Repton, originally serving as the ferryman's residence for the Antony Ferry across the River Lynher. The building is constructed from slatestone rubble, arranged in courses with larger stone blocks for banding, while the rear wall is rendered. It features a hipped slate roof with deep eaves supported by paired brackets and a central stack with a shaped top.
The cottage has a two-room plan, with the left room having a splayed corner and an entrance through a porch on the left end. The right room was originally a boat house and includes a winder stair at the back. To the right, there is a single-storey integral room for services, which may have originally been an outbuilding. The building stands two storeys high with a splayed front, where each bay is recessed to the centre and features segmental heads with rubble pilasters and plain cornices.
The left front bay includes a porch with a hipped roof, a side door, and a four-pane light at the front. On the first floor, there is a two-light horizontal sliding sash window with six panes in each light, topped with stone flat arches. All windows are of this type, with eight-pane lights on the ground floor. The right side of the building has two bays, with a window on both the ground and first floors in the left bay. The right bay is wider and has a cambered stone head with impost blocks from a former opening for a boat, with the imposts extended as a string course across the bay, now featuring a two-light eight-pane horizontal sliding sash window on the first floor.
To the right, there is a single-storey service wing with a hipped roof, which has a 20th-century door and a single light to the right, along with a three-light eight-pane casement to the left. A segmental stone head remains in the centre from a former door opening. Additionally, there is a single-storey rubble outhouse with two doors attached to the end on the right. Inside, the front room has shutters on the windows, and the winder stair at the rear features main column balusters and stick balusters. The cottage is part of the Antony Estate.
Local climate
Ferryman's Cottage 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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