The Cellar Bar is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1999. Restaurant.
The Cellar Bar
- WRENN ID
- last-bracket-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1999
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Cellar Bar, Church Street, Mevagissey
- OS grid reference
- SX 014 448
- Coordinates
- 50.27044, -4.78759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cellar Bar is a former pilchard-pressing fish cellar with lofts above, now functioning as a restaurant. It dates from the early 19th century. The building features a rubble ground floor and slate hanging on stud work for the upper floors, topped with grouted scantle slate roofs. There is a brick axial stack towards the rear of the roof on the left side. The structure has an L-shaped plan and stands three storeys high.
The inner front of the right-hand wing has a three-window range, showcasing original 12-pane hornless sash windows on the second floor, while the other windows are 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The inner left-hand return includes a shallow, partly weatherboarded two-storey lean-to. The outer elevation of the left-hand wing presents a four-window range with windows on the upper floors only, all of which are original 12-pane hornless sashes.
Inside, the building retains the original beam sockets for a pilchard-pressing floor. The Cellar Bar is noted for being a substantially complete example of an early 19th-century house with a slate-hung front, and it is a rare surviving structure associated with the once-thriving pilchard fishing industry.
Local climate
The Cellar Bar 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 86% 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 0.2°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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