Tolcarne Wartha Farmhouse Including Front Garden Walls and Adjoining Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Farmhouse, outbuilding.
Tolcarne Wartha Farmhouse Including Front Garden Walls and Adjoining Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- strange-cobble-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse, outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- SW 686 352
- Coordinates
- 50.17182, -5.24157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tolcarne Wartha Farmhouse, including the front garden walls and adjoining outbuilding, is an early 19th-century farmhouse with painted rubble walls and a grouted scantle slate hipped roof featuring projecting eaves. The building has brick chimneys on the side walls and cast-iron ogee gutters. The layout consists of a double depth plan with two rooms at the front: a kitchen/living room on the right and a parlour on the left, flanking an entrance hall that leads to a rear stair hall. To the right is a two-storey back kitchen outshut, and to the left is a single-storey lean-to washhouse that adjoins the domestic outbuilding.
The exterior is two storeys high and features a nearly symmetrical three-window south front with a central doorway. Most original doors and windows are intact, except for the ground floor right-hand window, which has a later remodelled opening and a 20th-century four-pane horned sash. The original front door is a four-panel design, and the windows include 16-pane hornless sashes. The rear of the house has ledged doors, an 18-pane horizontally-sliding sash for the back kitchen, a similar 12-pane window above in the chamber, and a tall round-headed stair sash with intersecting glazing bars.
Inside, the farmhouse retains an unaltered interior with many original features, including a dog-leg stair and panelled doors. There is a possible reused 18th-century two-panel door. The front garden walls are constructed from large pieces of granite moorstone, and there are monolithic jambs to a gateway next to the house. At the back, there is a pavement made of granite moorstone flags and cobbled yards adjoining the property.
Local climate
Tolcarne Wartha Farmhouse Including Front Garden Walls and Adjoining Outbuilding 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
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