Quay Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1970. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Quay Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1970
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Quay Cottage, Fore Street, Penzance, TR18 5JR
- OS grid reference
- SW 465 283
- Coordinates
- 50.1014, -5.54613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quay Cottage is an 18th-century building located on Newlyn Fore Street. It features colourwashed plastered rubble and has a slurried slate roof that is hipped to the left. The cottage has three windows, which include both sash and casement styles with glazing bars. On the return end, there is one window and a door. Quay Cottage is part of a group that includes Nos 68 to 74 (even), the Fisherman's Arms, No 80, and Tonkins Cottage.
Local climate
Quay Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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