Building at Approximately 25 Metres North of Higher Spargo Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Unknown building.

Building at Approximately 25 Metres North of Higher Spargo Farmhouse

WRENN ID
proud-pilaster-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1988
Type
Unknown building
OS grid reference
SW 753 323
Coordinates
50.14863, -5.14537
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a round building located approximately 25 metres north of Higher Spargo Farmhouse, likely dating from the 18th century, though it may be older. Its exact purpose is unknown, but it could have served as a malthouse, smoking chamber, ash-house, ice-house, or pigsty. The structure is built from granite rubble with some dressed granite.

The building has a round plan and features a doorway on the south side. This side has been partly rebuilt, resulting in a straight external wall where the thickness has been reduced. Otherwise, the building remains unaltered, with a high stone corbelled roof that has a central capstone, rising from the thick rubble walls.

It is a single-storey structure with overgrown rubble walls that adjoin two rubble and earth hedges at the rear left and right. The south front has a high doorway with remnants of an original corbelled arched head on the right, resembling those found on the outer doorways of 18th-century ovens in Cornwall. There is also a later monolithic jambstone further into the doorway on the right, which has iron pintails for hanging a door.

Inside, the earth floor reportedly shows some traces of ash, and the walls and roof appear to be blackened.

Local climate

Building at Approximately 25 Metres North of Higher Spargo Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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