Barn and Horse Engine House on North Side of Yard at Knighton Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1989. Barn, engine house.

Barn and Horse Engine House on North Side of Yard at Knighton Farm

WRENN ID
gaunt-truss-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 May 1989
Type
Barn, engine house
Address
Barn and Horse Engine House on North Side of Yard at Knighton Farm, Lewannick
OS grid reference
SX 250 796
Coordinates
50.58998, -4.47231
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn and horse engine house at Knighton Farm, dating from the early to mid 19th century, is constructed of stone rubble with granite dressings and features a slate roof with gable ends and a canted end for the horse engine house at the rear. The building has a rectangular plan, with the barn extended on the right side in the mid 19th century.

The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical front elevation facing the yard. It includes wide doors near the center, flanked by two small windows, and an additional window to the left. The first floor has wide threshing doors. The right side extends with a two-storey range that has dressed granite quoins and a plank door on the ground floor. The ground rises gently to the rear, where the horse engine house is located at the rear left. The machinery in the engine house has been removed.

Local climate

Barn and Horse Engine House on North Side of Yard at Knighton Farm 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 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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