Tighna Dris is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
Tighna Dris
- WRENN ID
- graven-terrace-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tighna Dris, Fore Street, St. Germans, PL12 5NR
- OS grid reference
- SX 356 578
- Coordinates
- 50.39741, -4.31406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property, Tighna Dris, is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of painted stone rubble with an asbestos slate roof, featuring gable ends. A brick shaft rises from a gable stack on the left, and another from a front lateral stack on the right, incorporating slate weathering.
The house originally comprised two rooms, one on the left with a gable-end stack and another to the right with a front lateral stack, each with a stairway to the rear. A rear right wing was added, probably in the later 17th century. The main house is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century three-light casement under a timber lintel, a 20th-century stable door with a wide timber lintel, the external stack, and another three-light 20th-century casement. The first floor features gabled dormers on the right and left, each with a three-light casement; the left has six panes, and the right eight, both with L hinges. The sides of the house are attached to adjacent buildings. At the rear, a small lean-to wash house is on the right, and a two-storey wing extends to the left with three casements, one formerly a door. The first floor of this wing has a casement with L hinges and a 20th-century two-light casement. The rear of the main house features a three-light casement serving the stairwell, also with L hinges. A half gable end is visible on the wing, with a single-storey 20th-century addition to its end; a corner stack is present on the wing with a cornice.
The ground floor is now an open room, retaining part of the stud partition between the passage and the room to the left. The room to the right features an unusually high ceiling, with one large chamfered crossbeam and a lower crossbeam beneath. A reconstructed winder stair is located at the rear of this room, dividing to the rear right to access the first floor of the rear wing. The room to the left has a winder stair and a two-light casement to the rear. On the first floor, the left room displays a wall plate, two later roughly-hewn principal rafters, and one truss with curved principals, formerly with a threaded purlin; the remainder of the roof structure is inaccessible. A blocked fireplace, formerly used to heat only the first-floor chamber, is in the rear wall. The room to the right has boxed beams. The rear wing incorporates a two-room plan with a passage along the right side.
Local climate
Tighna Dris sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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