West Taphouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Farmhouse.
West Taphouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- narrow-belfry-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Taphouse Farmhouse, A390, Braddock
- OS grid reference
- SX 150 632
- Coordinates
- 50.44031, -4.60557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Taphouse Farmhouse is a former coaching inn and stables, now functioning as a farmhouse, dating from around the 18th century, possibly with an earlier core. The building features mid-19th century stables and a coach house that form flanking wings. It is constructed of rubble stone with a hipped slate roof and stone chimneys, which have brick stacks projecting at each end. Gablets behind the stacks extend back to the hipped roof.
The farmhouse has a nearly symmetrical façade with two storeys and five windows across the front. On the ground floor, there is one 20th-century two-light timber casement window with fixed lights above on the left, and two similar windows on the right of a central gabled stone porch. The door is topped by a chamfered stone segmental arch, which dates from the 17th century and has been reset, with later stone volutes added at the springing point of the arch. The first floor contains four similar 20th-century casement windows, with one blocked opening situated between the central and right-hand windows.
At each gable end, there are projecting wings that were originally stables and a coach house. These wings are also built of rubble stone and have slate roofs with hipped ends. The left-hand wing is single-storey and features semi-circular openings with timber shutters on the left and a partly blocked door on the right under an arched opening. There is a 20th-century extension that projects forward from this wing. The right-hand wing is two storeys tall, with a ground floor that includes a double timber door on the left and a semi-circular opening on the right, along with two square openings above. The roof timbers of this wing have been replaced.
Local climate
West Taphouse Farmhouse 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 91% 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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