Receven Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Farmhouse.

Receven Old Farmhouse

WRENN ID
proud-hearth-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Receven Old Farmhouse, Sancreed
OS grid reference
SW 418 317
Coordinates
50.12975, -5.61293
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Receven Old Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse constructed from granite moorstone rubble, featuring some granite dressings. It has a steep corrugated iron roof with a dressed granite stack over the right-hand gable end. The original layout consisted of a two-room plan, with a parlour on the left and a slightly larger kitchen on the right, likely with a lobby entrance and stair between them. In the 19th century, service rooms were added in an outshut at the rear, and there is a small later lean-to on the right. The left-hand gable end was rebuilt in the 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high and nearly symmetrical, with a two-window south-south-east front and a doorway to the left of the middle, featuring an old ledged door. The ground floor has 20th-century windows, while the windows above are boarded over. A reused possible millstone serves as a quoin on the right. The interior has not been inspected but is said to contain a large granite fireplace at the right-hand end and possibly has old floors and roof structure.

Local climate

Receven Old Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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