Nance Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1973. Farmhouse.
Nance Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sunken-sandstone-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Nance Farmhouse, Truro
- OS grid reference
- SW 841 442
- Coordinates
- 50.25911, -5.02948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nance Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse constructed of coursed killas rubble with volcanic stone voussoirs. It features an asbestos slate hipped roof that slopes lower at the rear and has brick chimneys positioned over the rear walls of the front rooms. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys tall with a symmetrical three-window front. The original hornless sash windows include glazing bars, and there is a central doorway with a six-panel door. All openings are topped with flat arches that have projecting keyblocks. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Nance Farmhouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings