Wotton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Wotton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wotton Farmhouse, Landrake with St. Erney, PL12 5AA
- OS grid reference
- SX 372 617
- Coordinates
- 50.43272, -4.29237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wotton Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse that has undergone some 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of slatestone rubble, with the left side being slate-hung. The slate roof features crested ridge tiles and gable ends with stacks that have rendered shafts.
The building has a double depth plan, with a central entrance leading to principal rooms on the front left and right, a rear stair hall, and a rear kitchen. The thickness of the wall between the front and rear rooms suggests that this may have been an earlier house that was significantly remodeled in the early 19th century, with a dairy added as a lean-to on the right side.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window range, featuring 19th-century windows. On the first floor, there are two 16-pane sashes and a central 12-pane sash in exposed boxes. The ground floor has 16-pane sashes on the right and left with stone segmental heads, and a central porch with a hipped slate roof and a 20th-century door. Large granite quoins and slatestone footings are present, with a straight joint to the right leading to the single-storey dairy addition with an attic. The right side of the dairy has two 2-light 8-pane casements, while the rear of the house lacks large quoins. There is a small single-storey rubble addition at the rear of the dairy.
At the rear, the first floor features three 20th-century windows and a stair light, while the ground floor has a single-storey lean-to along the rear of the kitchen, which includes a 19th-century 3-light casement. The porch has a hipped roof and a 9-pane light at the front, which was formerly a door. There is also a 20th-century window on the ground floor to the right.
Inside, the stair hall features an open-well stair with a moulded handrail, stick balusters, and columnar newels. The front room to the left has panelled shutters and a mid-19th-century marble chimneypiece. The kitchen includes a fireplace with granite jambs, and the back of a curved oven is visible inside the dairy at the base of the stack. The kitchen also has a boxed-in service stair leading to the front, with an 18th-century door that has strap hinges. Between the front and rear rooms, there is a lateral passage with a thick wall on the side of the rear rooms. On the first floor, the doors to the two rear rooms both have L hinges.
Local climate
Wotton Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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