Pair of Cottages 30 Metres to North West of Post Office Comp No.3 Can Cottage and Cottage to South is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1989. Cottages.
Pair of Cottages 30 Metres to North West of Post Office Comp No.3 Can Cottage and Cottage to South
- WRENN ID
- half-step-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1989
- Type
- Cottages
- OS grid reference
- SX 280 891
- Coordinates
- 50.67654, -4.43454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of cottages, known as No. 3 Can Cottage and the cottage to the south, dates from the early 17th century. They are constructed of rendered and painted stone rubble and cob, featuring a corrugated iron roof with gable ends on the left and a rag slate roof with gable ends on the right. The cottages have projecting end stacks with later brick shafts and a truncated axial stack to the right of center.
Originally, the building was likely a three-room house with a cross or through passage plan, which was later divided into two cottages. The entrance is located to the left of center, leading to a service room on the left, heated by an end stack. The hall is heated by the axial stack in the higher cross wall, while the inner room to the right is also heated by an end stack. The left-hand cottage has a two-room and central passage plan, while the right-hand cottage includes the inner room and features a row of 19th-century single-storey pig houses on the front right, which have been converted into a kitchen.
The exterior is two storeys high with a three-to-one window front. The left-hand cottage has early 19th-century casements with horizontal sliding hinges, a 20th-century glazed door in a gabled painted brick porch, and is flanked by two three-light casements, with three two-light casements on the first floor. The right-hand cottage has a 20th-century door and a two-light casement on the ground floor, along with a two-light casement on the first floor. The single-storey pig houses that have been converted into a kitchen project to the front right.
Inside the right-hand cottage, there are 19th-century floor joists and a stair, possibly located in an earlier stair projection at the rear. The lintel to the fireplace has been renewed, but the first floor was not inspected. The interior of the left-hand cottage is not accessible.
Local climate
Pair of Cottages 30 Metres to North West of Post Office Comp No.3 Can Cottage and Cottage to South sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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