Barn, Millhouse and Stables About 20 Metres West of Brendon Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. Barn, millhouse, stables.
Barn, Millhouse and Stables About 20 Metres West of Brendon Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-moat-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- Barn, millhouse, stables
- OS grid reference
- SX 259 946
- Coordinates
- 50.72491, -4.46765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building complex consists of a barn, formerly a threshing barn, a millhouse, and stables, located about 20 metres west of Brendon Farmhouse. The barn dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century, while the millhouse and stables were built in the late 19th century. The barn is made of rendered cob, likely on a stone plinth, and features a hipped scantle slate roof at the left gable end. The millhouse is rendered with a gabled slate roof, and the stables are constructed from slatestone rubble with brick dressings and a gabled slate roof.
The barn faces northeast, with the millhouse attached at the rear left, slightly projecting beyond the barn at the southeast, and includes slate steps leading up to the granary. The stable range extends from the right front of the barn. The barn has a large opening on the front left, topped with a slated pent roof supported by shallow slatestone and cob walls, and features pigeon holes under the eaves to the right. A rear entrance is sheltered by a slated porch supported on brackets. Inside, the barn has a slate floor, and the original threshing platform has been replaced with concrete. The roof structure consists of tie beams with king posts and struts.
The millhouse retains a pit for an undershot water wheel and an intact stone grinding mill. Additionally, there is an early 20th-century oil-driven Blackstone engine housed in a lean-to attached to the rear of the millhouse. The stable range has three openings on the ground floor.
Local climate
Barn, Millhouse and Stables About 20 Metres West of Brendon Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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