Heath Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. House.

Heath Cottage

WRENN ID
young-flint-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1987
Type
House
Address
Heath Cottage, Station Road, Calstock
OS grid reference
SX 426 709
Coordinates
50.51716, -4.22128
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Heath Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century, with few later alterations. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and features a hipped slate roof adorned with crested ridge tiles and rendered stacks, one at the right end and one in an axial position to the left. The building has a double depth plan, with a large room on the right heated by a stack at the right end, an entrance hall, and a smaller room on the front left heated by a stack at the rear, which also serves a fireplace in the service room at the rear left. At the rear center is an unheated service wing with a one-room plan.

The exterior is single storey and asymmetrical, with a three-window front consisting of one window on the left and two on the right. All windows are early 19th-century three-light casements featuring pointed arches and Gothick glazing bars. The entrance has a panelled and glazed door with a four-centred arched fanlight, and there is a Gothick design bootscraper on each side. The left side of the cottage has two similar casements and a 20th-century conservatory attached to the rear left. The eaves at the front and left side are lowered and supported on cast iron piers to create a verandah. On the right side, there is a single-storey lean-to beside the front room, along with two similar three-light casements in the rear range. The single-storey service wing features two single lights with ogee arches from the early 19th century and a central 20th-century window on the right side, with a door at the rear and one similar single ogee light and one paired light on the left side, both with granite surrounds. At the rear right, there is a lean-to behind the service room, which includes one similar single ogee light with a granite surround.

The interior has not been fully inspected, but the front windows have panelled shutters, and the entrance hall contains panelled doors on the right and left. There may be additional Gothick details in the joinery.

Local climate

Heath Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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