Garden Wall and Shippon Attached to North of St Erney House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. Garden wall, shippon.
Garden Wall and Shippon Attached to North of St Erney House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-sandstone-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Garden wall, shippon
- OS grid reference
- SX 370 590
- Coordinates
- 50.40908, -4.29416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden wall and attached shippon, which was formerly a house, are located to the north of St Erney House. The wall is dated 1728 and is built in two sections, each connected to the shippon, which likely dates from the late 17th century and has undergone later alterations. The wall is constructed from slatestone rubble with greenstone coping. The shippon is also made of slatestone rubble, featuring a slate roof with gable ends and some early ridge tiles still in place.
Originally, the shippon had a two-room layout, with each room heated by a gable end stack and a central entrance at the front. The wall runs in a straight line between St Erney House and the shippon, extending in an L-shape beyond the shippon. The wall varies in height from about two to four metres, depending on the slope of the ground. Next to St Erney House, there is a gateway with granite jambs and a lintel, topped with a 20th-century wrought iron gate. Beyond the shippon, the wall continues for about 10 metres, featuring a rounded corner, and extends another 15 metres in the L-plan. On the inner side of the wall, there is a datestone from 1728 with illegible initials.
The shippon has a central cart entrance at the front. On the right side, there is an external stack and a two-light window opening at ground level to the left, which has a timber lintel. The left side features an external stack and an upper-level cob section with a first-floor window opening, also with a timber lintel and slate sill. The rear has a low window opening on the right and a smaller opening on the left. The roof retains two handmade crested ridge tiles.
Inside, the shippon has a five-bay roof supported by halved principals resting on the wall tops, with two rows of purlins on the backs of the principal rafters. There are low tie beams with sockets in the rear wall, and each gable end originally had a fireplace with a timber lintel. All internal partitions and the upper floor have been removed.
Local climate
Garden Wall and Shippon Attached to North of St Erney House 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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