Lowena Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. Farmhouse.

Lowena Cottage

WRENN ID
eternal-loft-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lowena Cottage, Gunwalloe
OS grid reference
SW 653 234
Coordinates
50.06483, -5.27965
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lowena Cottage is a farmhouse dating from the early 19th century. It features shale rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, and lintels, as well as slate sills. The roof is hipped and covered with scantle slate, with brick chimneys positioned over the side walls. The original layout included two rooms with a central cross passage leading to a stair, but it has since been modified to one room, with a back kitchen added in a later outshut behind the right-hand room. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front facing southwest, with a central doorway that contains a 20th-century ledged door. The original window openings are fitted with 20th-century 12-pane two-light casements. The interior has not been inspected. Lowena Cottage is part of a group of four farmhouses in this small hamlet, set in unspoiled coastal surroundings.

Local climate

Lowena Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles 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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