Cove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Boathouse.
Cove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-loft-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1988
- Type
- Boathouse
- Address
- Cove Cottage, St. Levan
- OS grid reference
- SW 371 217
- Coordinates
- 50.03777, -5.67195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cove Cottage is a former boathouse and fisherman's store, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings and features an asbestos slate roof, topped by a brick chimney on the right-hand gable. The building has a rectangular plan with a loft above what was likely the boathouse, and it is built into a bank at the front and on the left side.
The exterior consists of a single storey over a basement boathouse. The south-west front has two windows, with doorways positioned towards the left and right. On the left, there is a four-panel door with flush-beaded panels, while the right side features a 20th-century glazed door. The windows are 20th-century 12-pane horned sashes, but the original openings are preserved on all elevations. The right-hand end includes a wide doorway and two windows above. The rear has small ventilator windows for the basement and three small windows for the upper floor. A dressed granite string or ledge is located below the basement windows, likely intended to support cantilevered pilchard pressing beams. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Cove Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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