Kirk House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1986. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Kirk House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-gateway-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1986
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Kirk House, Talland Hill, Polperro, Looe, PL13 2RX
- OS grid reference
- SX 208 509
- Coordinates
- 50.33154, -4.51888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kirk House, in Lansallos, Polperro, is a former 1838 chapel built of stone rubble with brick dressings. It was originally constructed on a rectangular plan, with alterations made later. The building has a slate roof with gable ends. The front elevation is almost symmetrical, designed with a two-window gabled form, and the ground slopes steeply on the Talland Street side.
The entrance is in the gable end, likely originally intended to have a gallery above. The ground floor now features two 20th-century three-light shop windows of differing width, flanking a central 20th-century part-glazed door under a near-semicircular hood. A datestone sits above the entrance. Above the shopfront are two rounded-headed sash windows with gothic glazing bars set within round brick arches. The corner of the front elevation on the left side is splayed as Talland Hill curves around. The right-hand side wall, facing Talland Street, originally had tall, round-headed windows, which have been altered, but the round brick window arches are still visible. A small basement is set on the lower right-hand side, featuring two reused chamfered timber lintels with run-out stops.
Local climate
Kirk House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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