Outbuilding 10 metres to north west of Higher Lank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1962. Outbuilding.

Outbuilding 10 metres to north west of Higher Lank Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tenth-bastion-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1962
Type
Outbuilding
OS grid reference
SX 088 756
Coordinates
50.54903, -4.69889
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an outbuilding located 10 metres to the north-west of Higher Lank Farmhouse, dating from the early to mid 19th century, which incorporates earlier dressed stone from the early 17th century. The structure is built from local stone rubble with dressed granite quoins and features rag slate roofs. The main range has hipped ends and consists of two storeys, with shippens on the ground floor and a threshing floor above. Attached to the left side is a second outbuilding that likely contains shippens or stables on the ground floor and a loft above.

The exterior of the front range has two storeys and includes a wide chamfered segmental arch to the right of centre, flanked by narrow ventilation slits. There is a central door leading to the threshing floor above, with a row of pigeon hides below the eaves. The rear elevation features ventilation slits on the ground floor and an external stone rubble stair with granite treads leading up to double plank doors on the first floor. The lower left side of the building has a two-storey front elevation with a reset early 17th-century chamfered segmental arch and ventilation slits. A stone rubble buttress is located to the left, and there is a blocked door on the first floor. The single-storey rear elevation rises as the ground slopes to the east.

Inside, the roof construction dates from the 19th century.

Local climate

Outbuilding 10 metres to north west of Higher Lank 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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