Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Farmhouse.

Old Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ghost-pavement-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 August 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Old Farmhouse, Luxulyan
OS grid reference
SX 031 604
Coordinates
50.41125, -4.77258
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a probably 17th-century farmhouse, later used as a farm building and abandoned as a residence around 1850. It is constructed of granite rubble with large granite quoins to the left end, and has a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. The building features granite stacks with cornices and shaped tops, and a rear lateral brick stack to the hall. The original plan included three rooms and a cross passage; one room to the left was heated by a gable end stack, the passage led to an unheated room to the right, and the end room to the right, possibly a parlour, was heated by another gable end stack.

Around the late 17th or early 18th century, the front wall of the end room to the right was rebuilt, with a visible rough joint to the front but no corresponding joint to the rear. At approximately the same time, a single-storey unheated outshut was added to the rear of the room to the left, likely coinciding with the insertion of a rear lateral stack in the central room.

The ground floor front has a doorway with a timber lintel and slate weathering, leading to the passage, with two pigeon holes above. The room to the left features a two-light casement at both ground and first floor levels. A 20th-century single-storey lean-to is attached to the right of the entrance door, containing a two-light casement above and a blocked ground floor window to the right, with a granite lintel. First floor windows also have granite lintels. The right gable end features an external stack with a rubble oven at its base, with a small single light at first floor to the left. The left gable end also has an external stack and a single light at ground floor to the right with slate weathering; a blocked single light is present at first floor to the right with a slate cill.

The rear elevation includes a single-storey rubble lean-to attached to the right, featuring a single light on its left side. The rear of the central room has a brick stack rising from the eaves and a window opening with a timber lintel; a narrow single light is located to the left of the stack under the eaves. The end room has a ground floor window opening with a heavy granite lintel. The interior was inaccessible during a 1986 survey. The building forms part of a group around a farmyard, alongside a stable and threshing barn.

Local climate

Old Farmhouse receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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