Farley House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1973. Terrace. 3 related planning applications.

Farley House

WRENN ID
quiet-railing-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1973
Type
Terrace
Address
Farley House, 12, Falmouth Road, Truro, TR1 2HX
OS grid reference
SW 823 443
Coordinates
50.2592, -5.05555
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Farley House is a terrace of five houses, some of which are now used as business premises, built in 1856 for Charles Farley. The building features stucco on masonry and a main hipped mansard roof covered with concrete tiles, along with shaped gables, gable roof dormers, and a parapet. The flanking gable-ended cross wings have roofs made of Delabole slate, and there are brick axial stacks. The overall design is large and irregular, forming a U-shape, and is styled in an Elizabethan manner.

The terrace has two storeys plus attics and an overall front with ten windows. It includes four shaped gables that project forward from the main range, flanked by stepped gables of two projecting cross wings, with an entrance bay at the far right. Architectural details include a plinth, strings, quoins, gable copings, and turned finials. The projecting sections are further enhanced by two-storey bay windows. The gable entrance porches are distinct, but all feature pointed doorways. Nos. 10 and 12 on the right retain their original wooden transomed mullioned windows, while Nos. 14 and 16 were boarded up at the time of the survey in August 1990, and No. 18 has 20th-century windows.

Inside, the houses boast moulded plaster ceilings and an open-well open-string staircase with turned balusters and a mahogany handrail that is scrolled over the newel.

Local climate

Farley House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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