Vicarage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1988. Farmhouse.
Vicarage Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stark-cloister-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Vicarage Farmhouse, St. Teath
- OS grid reference
- SX 061 822
- Coordinates
- 50.6077, -4.7412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vicarage Farmhouse is a building that dates from the late 16th century and was originally a vicarage, now functioning as a farmhouse. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and features a rag slate roof with gable ends and stone rubble end stacks. The layout consists of a two-room plan with a cross or through passage, heated by end stacks. There is a small turreted stair located at the rear of the left-hand room. The rear outshot has been remodelled in the 20th century.
The exterior is two storeys high with a regular three-window front. A central rendered 20th-century porch with a gable end and a part-glazed door provides access. To the left, there is a four-pane sash window and a very small one-light window, while to the right, there is another four-pane sash. On the first floor, there is a circa 19th-century nine-pane casement and two 16-pane sashes from the same period. The rear outshot has been remodelled in the 20th century, and there is also a 20th-century lean-to extension on the right-hand gable end.
Inside, there is a 20th-century fireplace in the left-hand room, and the ceiling beams were replaced in the 19th century. The stone turreted stair at the rear of the left-hand room has not been inspected, and the right-hand room and first floor are not accessible. The farmhouse is noted for being particularly unaltered and has an interesting history, as detailed by Sir John Maclean. Notably, a Norman font bowl, which is now located in the nearby Church of St Tetha, was found in the grounds of Vicarage Farmhouse.
Local climate
Vicarage Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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