Calf House at Lithiack and Stable Adjacent to North is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. Calf house and stable.
Calf House at Lithiack and Stable Adjacent to North
- WRENN ID
- other-gravel-moon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Calf house and stable
- OS grid reference
- SX 358 584
- Coordinates
- 50.40266, -4.31078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The calf house at Lithiack and the adjacent stable were built in the late 18th to early 19th century. The calf house, possibly designed by the architect John Soane, is constructed from slatestone rubble with limestone dressings and features a hipped slate roof with ridge tiles. The stable is also built from rubble and has a slate roof with ridge tiles behind a parapet with coping.
The calf house has a rectangular plan with entrances on all sides, while the stable is similarly rectangular and has five entrances on the front. Together, the two buildings form an L-shaped group, likely built around the same time. The calf house is a tall single-storey structure with wooden ventilator grilles under the eaves on all sides. The front and rear roof slopes each have two semi-circular ventilators with decorative grilles. The front features a doorway with a shouldered head, while the left side has three doorways with sliding doors and a gabled dormer with a loading door. The right side has a central doorway with a granite lintel, and the rear has a single-storey 20th-century addition. Inside, the rear has a doorway similar to the front, which is concealed by the addition, and the roof has seven bays with tie-beams resting on stone blocks at the wall-tops.
The stable is a single-storey building with a five-bay front, with each bay featuring a doorway topped with a granite lintel. Above each doorway, the parapet is ramped up and shouldered, creating a flat pedimental feature. The interior of the stable has not been inspected.
Local climate
Calf House at Lithiack and Stable Adjacent to North 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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