Penrose Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Farm workers cottages. 1 related planning application.

Penrose Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
scattered-fireplace-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
Farm workers cottages
Address
Penrose Farm Cottage, Sennen, TR19 7BJ
OS grid reference
SW 377 256
Coordinates
50.07279, -5.6667
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Penrose Farm Cottage is a pair of farm workers' cottages built around the mid-19th century. The front is made of granite ashlar, while the rest is constructed from granite rubble. The cottages have a dry Delabole slate roof at the front, with the rear being reslated at the time of the survey. The roof features projecting eaves and verges, along with a large central axial brick stack and smaller gable end stacks, all adorned with stepped strings, caps, and cogged cornices.

The plan consists of an identical double-depth layout for both cottages, each likely containing a small parlour and a kitchen at the front, with an entrance lobby or axial passage accessed from doorways at either end. There is also a service room within a narrower and shallow rear outshut. The exterior is two storeys high, with a symmetrical four-window southeast front that has no doorways. The windows are late 19th or early 20th century 12-pane horned sashes in their original openings. Each gable end features a doorway with old ledged doors and an overlight. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Penrose Farm Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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