Horse Engine House 5 Metres to North of Trewint Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. Barn, horse engine house.

Horse Engine House 5 Metres to North of Trewint Farmhouse

WRENN ID
standing-wicket-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1985
Type
Barn, horse engine house
OS grid reference
SX 295 632
Coordinates
50.44404, -4.40262
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The horse engine house, located 5 meters north of Trewint Farmhouse, is a bank barn and horse engine house that is currently used as a calveshouse with a hay loft above. The barn dates from around 1800, while the horse engine house was built around 1810. It is constructed from rubblestone and features a scantle slate roof with half hips on the barn and a polygonal end on the engine house.

The barn has a single storey on the west side, with a partly rendered front that includes central double plank doors. There is a lean-to on the right-hand hipped end and late 19th-century shippons on the left-hand hipped end. At the rear, the 1½ storey horse engine house is positioned to the left of center and has a polygonal end with rectangular slits in the canted walls. The north elevation features a wide door that leads to the hay loft above, and there are doveholes located below the eaves. Inside the horse engine house, there is a pegged collar rafter roof with a kingpost truss, although the central pier has been removed.

Local climate

Horse Engine House 5 Metres to North of Trewint Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% 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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