Barn and Horse Engine House at Approximately 100 Metres West of Kennal Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. A Agricultural Barn.

Barn and Horse Engine House at Approximately 100 Metres West of Kennal Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winter-slate-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1988
Type
Barn
Period
Agricultural
OS grid reference
SW 743 371
Coordinates
50.19105, -5.16229
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a barn and horse-engine house, dating from around the mid-19th century, located approximately 100 metres west of Kennal Farmhouse. It is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings and features grouted scantle slate hipped roofs and cast-iron ogee gutters. The barn has an L-shaped plan, with a short arm projecting at right angles in front of the right-hand side and a canted horse-engine house extending behind the middle of the long arm. The right-hand part of the barn is built into a bank.

The longer part of the barn includes two pairs of opposing loading and winnowing doorways, with a flight of stone steps behind the right-hand doorways and another flight behind the far right-hand side leading to an additional loading doorway. The ground floor contains waggon sheds beneath the threshing floors, as well as stables or loose boxes, and possibly originally a shippon in the right-hand section. The first floor serves as a granary and fodder store. The horse-engine house features opposing doorways on the sides and slit windows in the canted end.

The exterior consists of two storeys with unaltered elevations, retaining original door and window openings. Many openings have their original ledged doors, and there are barred windows with internal shutters. The symmetrical east front has four windows and five doorways on the ground floor, including a wide waggon doorway with loading doorways above, located towards the left and right. The left-hand waggon doorway is partly blocked. The interior has not been fully inspected, except for the horse-engine house, which lacks machinery but retains the original roof structure and beams that once supported the machinery.

Local climate

Barn and Horse Engine House at Approximately 100 Metres West of Kennal Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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