Furze Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Furze Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-chancel-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Furze Farmhouse, Morwenstow, EX23 9SL
- OS grid reference
- SS 226 148
- Coordinates
- 50.90584, -4.52387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Furze Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins dating back to the 17th century, featuring alterations from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The building is colourwashed and roughcast, topped with a 20th-century slate roof that has gabled ends. The left gable end has a brick chimney, while the right gable end has a projecting stack with a brick shaft. The farmhouse has a single depth plan that is three rooms wide, with rear lean-to additions. The original layout may have consisted of two or three rooms, with the room at the lower end previously used as a shippon.
The structure is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with four windows, an off-centre front door, and a 20th-century glazed conservatory with a flat roof. The windows throughout are 20th-century casements with two lights and six panes per light, and the openings have been enlarged. Inside, the ground floor room on the left features two stop-chamfered cross-beams with wide run-out stops, a large fireplace with a cloam oven, and a chamfered fireplace beam with wide run-out stops, although this is partly concealed by a 20th-century fireplace. The ground floor has six-panel doors, and there is one two-panel 18th-century door leading to the first-floor room on the right. The principals are visible in the upstairs rooms, but the roof space has not been inspected.
Local climate
Furze Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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