Oak House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. A Early 19th century Vicarage, private house.
Oak House
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-jade-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1988
- Type
- Vicarage, private house
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Address
- Oak House, Altarnun
- OS grid reference
- SX 222 813
- Coordinates
- 50.60511, -4.51295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak House is a vicarage that has been converted into a private home, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and features a rag slate roof with hipped ends and deep overhanging eaves, along with rendered brick axial stacks. The building has a double depth plan with a central entrance, with the main rooms located at the front and on the left side, overlooking the garden, while service rooms are situated at the rear right.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front, which includes a central 19th-century porch with raised corner pilasters and a moulded cornice. The porch features a 20th-century 15-pane window in the front wall and a 20th-century door in the left-hand side wall. It is flanked by what are likely 20th-century 12-pane windows, with a similar 12-pane window above on the first floor to the left, and 19th-century 12-pane sashes in the centre and to the right. To the right, the service wing has 19th-century 12-pane sashes on both the ground and first floors.
The left side elevation, which faces the garden, also has a symmetrical three-window arrangement, with a central canted bay that is set forward. There are three 19th-century 12-pane sashes on the ground floor and three above. At the rear, the vicarage overlooks the church and features a canted bay on the right side, with 19th-century 12-pane sashes on both the ground and first floors. A shallow 20th-century porch has been added across the ground floor to the left. The interior is not accessible for inspection.
Local climate
Oak House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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