Wash House Immediately West of Raftra Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. A Victorian Wash house.

Wash House Immediately West of Raftra Old Farmhouse

WRENN ID
keen-arch-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
Wash house
Period
Victorian
Address
Wash House Immediately West of Raftra Old Farmhouse, St. Levan
OS grid reference
SW 375 232
Coordinates
50.05144, -5.66766
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a wash house located immediately west of Raftra Old Farmhouse, dating from around the mid-19th century. It is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings and features a grouted scantle slate roof, topped with a brick chimney at the right-hand end. The building has a small single-cell rectangular plan. On the southeast front, there is a window opening on the left that contains a 20th-century window, and a doorway on the right with an old ledged door. Inside has not been inspected, but there is an old granite trough situated under the window.

Local climate

Wash House Immediately West of Raftra Old Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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