The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1987. Farmhouse.
The Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- open-pediment-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse, St. Breward
- OS grid reference
- SX 086 744
- Coordinates
- 50.5383, -4.70114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the mid-18th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with dressed granite quoins and features a rag slate roof with gable ends. There is a parallel range at the rear, also with a rag slate roof and gable ends. The building has stone rubble end stacks on the right (east) side of both ranges.
The farmhouse has an unusual double depth plan, with a two-room layout in the front range. The right-hand room on the east side is heated by an end stack, and it is likely that there is a similar two-room plan in the parallel range at the rear. The entrance is located in the right-hand gable end of the rear range, next to the fireplace. The interior was not accessible during the survey in 1986, so it is unclear if this unusual plan is original.
The exterior of the farmhouse is two storeys high and has a symmetrical two-window front. On the ground floor, there are two late 19th-century four-pane sash windows, while the first floor features two early to mid-19th-century 16-pane hornless sash windows. There is a 20th-century brick porch on the rear right-hand gable end, and a 20th-century window in the rear elevation. The interior remains inaccessible.
Local climate
The Old 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 2 transactions since 2017
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