The Loft is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1986. Store.
The Loft
- WRENN ID
- outer-baluster-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1986
- Type
- Store
- Address
- The Loft, the Peak, Polperro
- OS grid reference
- SX 210 508
- Coordinates
- 50.33015, -4.51582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Loft is a building located in Lansallos, Polperro, dating from the early 19th century. It was originally a net loft and is now used as a store. The structure is made of stone rubble with lapped timber weatherboarding on the right-hand gable end and features a scantle slate roof with gable ends. The building has a rectangular plan, built into the side of a rock, with two storeys at the front and one storey at the rear.
The front elevation has a regular arrangement of four windows. On the left side, there is a boarded opening, while the right side has three blocked openings. Above these, there are four renewed timber boarded openings, all with timber lintels. The right-hand leeward gable end includes double doors on the ground floor and a plank door in the first-floor opening.
The interior has not been inspected. Historical notes by Jonathan Couch describe the loft as a sailmaker's loft built at the beginning of the 20th century, originally three storeys high but now only two. These notes were edited in 1871 and published by his son, Thomas Quiller Couch, in "The History of Polperro."
Local climate
The Loft 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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