The Retreat and Lynton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Residential. 3 related planning applications.
The Retreat and Lynton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-step-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Retreat and Lynton Cottage, Mousehole Lane, Penzance, TR19 6UA
- OS grid reference
- SW 463 270
- Coordinates
- 50.08969, -5.54687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 18th and 19th century granite rubble building comprises The Retreat and Lynton Cottage. It has a slate roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. The building contains five windows, with modern casement windows and sash windows lacking glazing bars. The Retreat features a gabled wooden porch, while Lynton Cottage has a modern glazed door. This building is included on the list for its group value, forming part of a group that includes the Church, Churchyard Wall, and Vicarage, together with other listed buildings along Mousehole Lane (with the exception of numbers 1 and 2 Mount View).
Local climate
The Retreat and Lynton Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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