Marlborough Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1973. House. 1 related planning application.

Marlborough Cottage

WRENN ID
north-marble-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1973
Type
House
Address
Marlborough Cottage, Silverdale Road, Falmouth, TR11 4HW
OS grid reference
SW 799 318
Coordinates
50.14597, -5.08124
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Marlborough Cottage is a small house built in the early 19th century. It features coursed rubble construction with granite quoins and a dry slate hipped roof that has projecting eaves, along with brick end stacks. The house has a double-depth plan that includes a rear extension. Its design incorporates Gothic style windows and is two storeys high with a symmetrical two-window front. The windows have pointed arches and are fitted with 20th-century copy sashes that have glazing bars intersecting at the heads. There is a central porch with a slate-hung gable and a 20th-century six-panel door. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Marlborough Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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