Little Sellan Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Farmhouse.

Little Sellan Farmhouse

WRENN ID
twisted-bailey-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Little Sellan Farmhouse, Sancreed
OS grid reference
SW 431 303
Coordinates
50.11792, -5.59458
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Sellan Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 18th century, incorporating dressed stone from a 17th-century house, including a stone dated 1666. It was remodeled and probably extended around the early 19th century. The front features granite ashlar, with slate hanging on the left-hand side and at the left gable end, while the rest is made of granite rubble with granite dressings. The roofs are covered with grouted scantle slate, although the front has been replaced with asbestos slate. Brick chimneys are located over the gable ends and the axial wall of the rear left-hand wing.

The farmhouse has an overall U-shaped plan, consisting of two rooms at the front with a central passage. The parlour is on the left, with a later single-storey two-room service range at right angles behind it. There is an L-plan stair on the left of the passage, and a large kitchen/living room on the right that features a large fireplace and a heated outshut, with a chamber above it.

The exterior is two storeys high and nearly symmetrical, with a three-window south-south-east front and a central round-headed doorway. The ashlar masonry up to the ground floor sill level is of a different color, possibly surviving from an older front. The window openings in the slate-hung part on the left are spaced farther from the doorway than those on the right, and the ground floor opening on the right is spanned by a flat arch. There is a 20th-century panelled door with a blind masonry fanlight above. The windows are early 20th-century horned sashes with vertical glazing bars. The rear wall features reused 17th-century masonry, including a moulded and panelled lintel with the date 1666 in relief, a moulded jambstone with a cross stop, and two heads or sills from two-light mullioned windows.

Inside, the kitchen fireplace has a moulded and panelled chimney-piece, likely from the 18th century. Other interior features date from the early 19th-century remodeling, including moulded ceiling beams, an architrave with nail-head decoration and corner blocks, and two-panel doors to the chambers. Some parts of the roof structure may be from the 18th century, but much of it has been renewed.

Local climate

Little Sellan Farmhouse 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 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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