Dry House Immediately North West of Wheal Friendly Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1988. Drying house. 1 related planning application.
Dry House Immediately North West of Wheal Friendly Engine House
- WRENN ID
- empty-beam-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1988
- Type
- Drying house
- Address
- Dry House Immediately North West of Wheal Friendly Engine House, St. Agnes
- OS grid reference
- SW 719 511
- Coordinates
- 50.31627, -5.20432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a drying house or possibly a smithy or forge, dating from around the mid-19th century. It features walls made of killas rubble and a scantle slate hipped roof. The structure has a rectangular plan, likely consisting of one large room. It is a single-storey building. The south-south-east front wall includes a doorway on the left and a window with glazing bars, which is mostly covered by ivy, located high up on the right. There are no visible openings on the other walls. The interior was not accessible during the survey.
Local climate
Dry House Immediately North West of Wheal Friendly Engine House receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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