Winch House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1984. House.
Winch House
- WRENN ID
- vast-steeple-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Winch House, Grade-Ruan
- OS grid reference
- SW 721 145
- Coordinates
- 49.98755, -5.17946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Winch House, dating from around the 18th century, is located on the beach at Cadgwith in Grade-Ruan. The building is constructed of stone rubble and features a slurried scantle slate roof, which has a gabled section facing the road to the north-west and a half-hipped gable towards the sea on the south-east. There is a brick stack on the north-west gable.
The house is two storeys tall and has an asymmetrical design, with large areas of blank wall and a rounded corner. On the south-west side, there is a large opening on the ground floor to the left of the centre, which is used for a winch operated by a motor. To the right of this opening is an 8-pane casement window, and there is also a 12-pane casement window. The wall curves around to the south-east facade, where the central ground floor opening has been partly blocked, and a narrow timber door has been inserted. Directly above this opening, there is another blocked area. A rubble stone slip with a cement screed surface extends down towards the sea from the ground floor opening.
On the north-west facade, the ground floor entrance is located on the left-hand side, with a small square opening above it. Additionally, there are two roof lights in the south-east slope of the roof. The older winch machinery, which features gothic detailing, is situated to the north-west of Winch House.
Local climate
Winch House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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