Rubbing Stone at Approximately 60 Metres North of Penwarne House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Monolith.
Rubbing Stone at Approximately 60 Metres North of Penwarne House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-footing-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Monolith
- OS grid reference
- SW 773 303
- Coordinates
- 50.13135, -5.11664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The rubbing stone, located approximately 60 metres north of Penwarne House, is a Grade II listed structure. This rubbing stone is situated in a small meadow next to a large, irregularly-shaped field. It dates from the 18th century or possibly earlier. The stone is a roughly-hewn granite monolith featuring chamfers where former slots were cut for splitting with wooden wedges.
Local climate
Rubbing Stone at Approximately 60 Metres North of Penwarne House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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