Barn at Approximately 40 Metres North of Bosliven Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Barn.

Barn at Approximately 40 Metres North of Bosliven Farmhouse

WRENN ID
peeling-rubble-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SW 418 252
Coordinates
50.07144, -5.6094
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located approximately 40 metres north of Bosliven Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century, with an extension added around 1870. It is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings and features a grouted scantle slate hipped roof. The front has cast-iron ogee gutters. The barn has a large rectangular plan, serving as a granary over shippons built in two phases. The original barn on the right includes a threshing floor with opposing loading and winnowing doorways, while the later barn has a central threshing floor. Both sections have old, though not original, stone steps leading to their rear doorways.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a nearly unaltered three-window front facing south-east. There are three original doorways on the ground floor and two loading doorways on the first floor. Four original small window openings are fitted with 19th-century shutters and glazed top lights. Inside, the barn retains its original first-floor structure, 19th-century roof structures, and old shippon fittings, including equipment for hoisting sacks. Notably, in 1849, the farmer John Eddy is said to have taken his own life in this barn.

Local climate

Barn at Approximately 40 Metres North of Bosliven Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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