Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. Town house. 7 related planning applications.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- errant-parapet-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Church House, Higher Chapel Street, Looe, PL13 1AU
- OS grid reference
- SX 256 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35271, -4.45279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a 16th-century town house, possibly originally associated with a church. It is constructed of rendered rubble with original granite dressings, and has a steep slate roof. A truncated stack with an external breast is located on the front right. The building has a single-depth plan with rear extensions.
The two-storey, two-window front features 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash windows, with the exception of a later 19th-century two-light casement window with large diamond panes on the ground floor right. Above this window, a window is contained within a raking dormer under heightened eaves. The original 16th-century doorway has a 4-centred arched moulded granite surround with square sunk spandrels and a hoodmould. It has a flush-panelled door, likely dating to the 18th or early 19th centuries. A 16th-century hoodmould with shorter labels is positioned above a window to the left of the doorway.
The interior was reported to be of considerable interest and unaltered at the time of survey, but was inaccessible.
Local climate
Church House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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