Drinking Trough 35 Metres to South of Penally House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. A Early C19 Well house, water trough.
Drinking Trough 35 Metres to South of Penally House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-cobalt-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1987
- Type
- Well house, water trough
- Address
- Drinking Trough 35 Metres to South of Penally House, PL35 0HQ
- OS grid reference
- SX 101 914
- Coordinates
- 50.6913, -4.68881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a drinking trough and well house located 35 metres south of Penally House, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from slate stone and granite. The well house is positioned at the side of the road, built into a high bank made of vertically coursed slate stones. It features an ashlar round-headed arch with jambs. Inside, there is a rectangular granite drinking trough that is supplied by a water outlet pipe in the rear wall.
Local climate
Drinking Trough 35 Metres to South of Penally House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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