Penheale Barton is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1989. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Penheale Barton

WRENN ID
endless-sill-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1989
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Penheale Barton, Egloskerry, PL15 8RX
OS grid reference
SX 267 881
Coordinates
50.66734, -4.45294
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Penheale Barton is a farmhouse built in 1835 for Henry Addington Simcoe. It features stone rubble construction with granite dressings and a moulded plinth, while the left side is slate hung. The roof is slate with gable ends and deep overhanging eaves, topped with crested ridge tiles. The building has stone rubble axial and end stacks with moulded caps.

The layout consists of a front range with three rooms and a through passage. The lower end on the right is heated by an end stack, the hall is heated by an axial stack backing onto the passage, and the inner room to the left is heated by another end stack. There are probably contemporary rear wings of one room plan on the rear right and left, along with a 20th-century service outshut added to the back of the passage. Attached to the higher left side is a circa early to mid-19th century outbuilding, likely originally a shippon or stable with a loft above, which has been partly incorporated into the house. The farmhouse's style is influenced by early 17th-century architecture.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front and an entrance to the right of centre. It features a 4-centred chamfered granite arch with a datestone and the arms of the Simcoe family above, along with a 19th-century plank door. To the left, there are two 3-light mullion windows, and one to the right. The first floor has four 2-light mullion windows above the ground floor openings. The lower range adjoining to the left was originally a shippon or stable with a loft above. The rear elevation includes dressed stone segmental arches, two plank doors flanking a central 3-light casement, and two 2-light casements on the first floor. The interior contains 19th and 20th-century joinery and carpentry details.

Local climate

Penheale Barton 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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