Former Coastgaurds' Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Former Coastgaurds' Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-spindle-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Former Coastgaurds' Cottage, British Road, St. Agnes, TR5 0TY
- OS grid reference
- SW 721 506
- Coordinates
- 50.31162, -5.2017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Coastguards' Cottage, built in 1893, consists of former coastguards' cottages that are now private houses. The structure is made of dressed killas with granite dressings and features a dry Delabole slate roof with exposed rafters under the eaves, along with stone gable and axial stacks. The original cast-iron gutters remain intact. The building has a double-depth overall L-shaped plan, with two identical pairs of houses on the left, which are now two separate houses, and on the right, the former head-coastguard's house with a cross wing that projects as a service wing at the rear. The exterior is two storeys high, and aside from the addition of two doorways in former window openings at the front, the elevations have not been altered. The north-east front has a slightly irregular ten-window arrangement, with a slightly projecting gable end of the cross wing towards the right and a plinth. The original 12-paned horned sash windows are still present. Inside, the interior retains most of its original features where inspected.
Local climate
Former Coastgaurds' Cottage receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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