Roscarrack Farm Cottage (Simpson) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Cottage.

Roscarrack Farm Cottage (Simpson)

WRENN ID
open-joist-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Roscarrack Farm Cottage (Simpson), Roscarrack Road, Budock
OS grid reference
SW 790 313
Coordinates
50.14125, -5.09426
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Roscarrack Farm Cottage, also known as Simpson, is a small house that was likely built in the 18th century and later remodeled in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The structure features painted rubble and cob walls, with an asbestos slate roof that was originally thatched. It has a rubble stack over the left-hand gable end and a late 19th or early 20th-century external granite stack with a brick chimney at the right-hand gable end.

The original layout consisted of a small two-room plan house, with a later lean-to added at the rear. The left side likely served as the kitchen and living room, while the right side was the parlour. It was later remodeled into two cottages, with each room functioning as a kitchen or living room, but it is now a single house.

The cottage is two storeys tall and has a slightly asymmetrical two-window front with a pair of doorways in the middle, which are framed by a Gothic style porch featuring scalloped barge boards on its gable ends. The left-hand doorway has an old ledged door, while the other has a 20th-century glazed door. The original window openings are spanned by hardwood lintels, with either original or early 19th-century horizontal-sliding sashes; the left-hand window has six and nine-pane lights, while the other has a pair of six-pane lights. The first-floor windows are later triangular-headed Gothic style dormered casements, featuring small panes and traceried heads set in steeply-pitched gables above the eaves. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Roscarrack Farm Cottage (Simpson) receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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