Wessex Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House.
Wessex Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-portal-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wessex Cottage, Church Street, Looe
- OS grid reference
- SX 253 532
- Coordinates
- 50.35279, -4.45674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wessex Cottage is a house from the 18th century, located on the north side of Church Street in West Looe. It is built of painted rubble and features wooden lintels, topped with an asbestos slate roof. The cottage has a shallow-depth plan and stands two storeys high, with an irregular arrangement of one window. The windows are 20th-century 16-pane, 2-light casements. There is a planked door on the left, which has a 20th-century slate hood above it. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Wessex Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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