Looedown Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1981. Farmhouse, barn.
Looedown Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- odd-joist-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Looedown Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Liskeard
- OS grid reference
- SX 239 653
- Coordinates
- 50.46168, -4.48152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Looedown Farmhouse and the attached barn are a farmhouse and threshing barn dating from the 18th century, with an early 19th-century extension on the left and a mid-19th-century threshing barn on the right. The early 19th-century part features slate hanging, while the original house is made of painted rubble, and the barn has slatestone rubble walls. The roofs are slate, hipped over the house extension and gable-ended elsewhere. The original house has an axial rubble stack in the middle and a slate-hung stack over the rear wall of the extension. The building has a single-depth plan, except for the double-depth extension to the house.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an overall four-window range. The original house, which has an irregular one-window range at the centre, features a central old lean-to porch with a planked door and an integral coach house with double planked doors to its right. The two-window extension on the left has original sashes with glazing bars, including a tall stair window, and a doorway towards the left with a panelled door. The barn on the right has a central first-floor threshing/loading doorway with divided planked doors beneath a slate hood, a 20th-century lean-to under the doorway, a shuttered window on the left, a small window opening above, and pigeon holes under the eaves. There is also a further loading doorway at the right-hand end. The house has a two-window left-hand return with original sashes, including a tripartite sash on the left with glazing bars.
The interior has not been inspected, but a former listing description mentions a bread oven and associated chimney furniture.
Local climate
Looedown Farmhouse and Attached Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 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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