Glume Stove House and Associated Structures at Approximately 40 Metres West of Kennal Vale House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Industrial building.

Glume Stove House and Associated Structures at Approximately 40 Metres West of Kennal Vale House

WRENN ID
twelfth-bracket-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1988
Type
Industrial building
OS grid reference
SW 751 375
Coordinates
50.19529, -5.1512
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Glume Stove House and associated structures, located approximately 40 meters west of Kennal Vale House, date back to 1812. These buildings include a chimney, boiler house, and drying house, constructed from killas and granite rubble with granite dressings. The plan features a complete round chimney at the east end, adjacent to a square-on-plan boiler house, which connects to a larger drying house. Both the boiler house and drying house are roofless and partly in ruins, situated on a steep slope in the Kennal Valley, with a walled platform in front.

The exterior is single-storey. The left-hand building has part of its front wall missing but retains the jambs of former openings. The right-hand building is set back and features a doorway to the left of the center, with another doorway in the right-hand return wall next to a tapered rubble stack. A high retaining wall in front provides access through a wide doorway at the far left. This site was used for drying pellets of gunpowder before storage and is considered one of the most complete examples of its type in southern and western England.

Local climate

Glume Stove House and Associated Structures at Approximately 40 Metres West of Kennal Vale House 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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