Boathouse, Armoury and St Kevernes Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1998. Cottage, boathouse.

Boathouse, Armoury and St Kevernes Cottages

WRENN ID
narrow-groin-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1998
Type
Cottage, boathouse
Address
Boathouse, Armoury and St Kevernes Cottages, Radford Lake, City of Plymouth
OS grid reference
SX 505 527
Coordinates
50.35539, -4.10213
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Boathouse, Armoury, and St Keverne's Cottages are a pair of cottages, a boathouse, and a lodge, currently in ruins. They date from around the mid-19th century but incorporate architectural features from the 16th and 17th centuries. The structures are built from stone rubble with granite dressings and are located on St Keverne's Quay at Radford Lake, forming a picturesque ruin.

Armoury Cottage is at the left (south) end and is a single-storey building. It features a moulded granite four-centred arch doorway on its south gable end, two window openings on its east front, and a large moulded granite fireplace inside, which has a carved fleur-de-lys and the date 1640 above it. St Keverne's Cottage is situated in the centre and has projections to the left and right. The right projection includes a heavily moulded granite round-arched doorway, while the centre has a four-light mullion window. The lodge and integral boathouse are on the right (north) side; the south wall of the lodge has a large segmental arch supported by granite monolithic columns with separate capitals. The boathouse features a large pointed arch entrance from the lake. Additionally, there is a large granite apple-press set into the grounds south of the boathouse and lodge.

Local climate

Boathouse, Armoury and St Kevernes Cottages 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% 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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