Penhale Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. Farmhouse.
Penhale Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-foundation-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Penhale Farmhouse, Ladock
- OS grid reference
- SW 881 510
- Coordinates
- 50.32166, -4.97731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penhale Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was formerly cottages, dating from the 18th century or earlier. It features cob walls with thatched roofs and brick end chimneys. The building is L-shaped with a stair turret at the angle. It has two storeys and three windows. The door is off-centre to the right, with a blocked doorway to the left. The windows are four-paned sashes, positioned slightly irregularly, and have wooden lintels. The wing of the building has irregular openings. The stairwell retains a 12-paned casement window that is hinged from the middle. Inside, there are partly blocked fireplace openings and open beamed ceilings, with lapped dovetailed collars in the roof of the wing. There is also a well located across the road to the north.
Local climate
Penhale 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.
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