Spray is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Cottage.
Spray
- WRENN ID
- hushed-oriel-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Spray, St. Ervan
- OS grid reference
- SW 876 707
- Coordinates
- 50.49792, -4.99621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spray is a cottage dating from the early 19th century, with later extensions added in the 19th century. It is constructed of slate rubble, featuring slate-hung walls on the first floor and a plastered ground floor. The roof is made of rag slate with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles, and there is a red brick chimney stack at the left gable end.
The cottage has a small two-room layout, with the left room heated by a gable end stack and a direct entry into the unheated right room. A single-storey outshut was added across the back later in the 19th century. This cottage is now part of the rear left room of the adjoining Spray Cottage.
The exterior is two storeys high with a regular two-window front and a doorway to the right. The first floor features two small 19th-century six-pane sash windows. On the ground floor, there is a small 19th-century 20-pane sash window to the left and a late 19th or early 20th-century two-light casement window to the right of centre, all with slate sills. The doorway to the right has a plank door and a late 19th-century red brick gabled porch with an open front. At the left end, there is a small single-storey outbuilding with a gable-ended rag-slate roof, a blocked front doorway, and another doorway in the gable end. The elevation is slate-hung above the single-storey outshut, which has a rag slate roof, two small 19th-century 16-pane sash windows, and a plank door on the left.
It is said that the cottage was built for the village cobbler, who is an ancestor of the current owner.
Local climate
Spray sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 2022
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