Kilna Quay is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. Warehouse.
Kilna Quay
- WRENN ID
- bitter-postern-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Kilna Quay, St. Germans
- OS grid reference
- SX 352 599
- Coordinates
- 50.41602, -4.32038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kilna Quay is a lime warehouse that has been converted into a house, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed of banded rubble made from slatestone and Devon limestone, topped with an asbestos slate roof featuring gable ends.
The rectangular plan structure is situated on the River Tiddy, and there is no evidence to suggest it was ever a watermill; it was likely built as a warehouse for the lime industry. The building has two storeys plus a loft and consists of six bays. On the ground floor, there are two bays on the left with 2-light casements that have flat brick arches, and three similar 2-light casements on the right. The first floor mirrors the ground floor with two casements on the left and three on the right, along with a loading door above the double doors, which features 20th-century glazing and a segmental brick arch. A 20th-century external stair leads up to this loading door.
There are two hipped dormers, each fitted with 20th-century casements. The right side of the building faces the river and has loading doors at all three levels, with the upper two featuring 20th-century casements. The left side includes a 20th-century door at the upper ground floor level and a half-glazed door at the loft level, which is accessible via a bridge leading to the road. The rear of the building has a wide segmental-arched double doorway, with two casements on the right and two on the left, and a doorway situated between the two on the left. Some of the casements are from the 18th century and have strap hinges. On the first floor, there are two casements on the right and two on the left, along with a central loading door that has double glazed doors inserted from the 20th century. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Kilna Quay sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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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