Range of Shippons or Pigs Houses on East Side of Yard, Open Fronted Stalls on South Side and Wall on West Side of Yard at Knighton Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1989. Shippon, pig house.
Range of Shippons or Pigs Houses on East Side of Yard, Open Fronted Stalls on South Side and Wall on West Side of Yard at Knighton Farm
- WRENN ID
- western-tin-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1989
- Type
- Shippon, pig house
- Address
- Range of Shippons or Pigs Houses on East Side of Yard, Open Fronted Stalls on South Side and Wall on West Side of Yard at Knighton Farm, Lewannick
- OS grid reference
- SX 250 795
- Coordinates
- 50.58968, -4.47245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a range of shippons or pig houses located on the east side of the yard at Knighton Farm, dating from around the mid-19th century. The structure is made of snecked stone with dressed granite lintels and quoins, topped with rag slate roofs featuring gable ends.
The layout includes a row of shippons or pig houses on the east side of the yard, with a shallow cross wing to the right of the center. To the south, there is a row of open-fronted stalls consisting of five bays, along with two additional enclosed bays to the right. A wall on the west side of the yard extends from the gable end of the open-fronted stalls to the barn on the north side.
The exterior features a single-storey, asymmetrical front with a higher gabled cross wing on the right. The cross wing includes a single plank door, two plank doors on either side, and double feeding doors to the far left. The rear elevation has ventilation slits and plank doors at the back of the cross wing. The right side features a seven-bay row of stalls and a cart shed, with five open bays on the left supported by unmoulded granite piers and two openings with double doors on the right. The front of the yard is enclosed by a stone rubble wall with quartz coping, and the main entrance to the yard is located on the left.
The yard remains unaltered and unspoilt, with the unusual feature of a tree growing within it. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Range of Shippons or Pigs Houses on East Side of Yard, Open Fronted Stalls on South Side and Wall on West Side of Yard at Knighton Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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