Goose Houses About 10 Metres North West of Welltown Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1987. A C18 Goose house.

Goose Houses About 10 Metres North West of Welltown Farmhouse

WRENN ID
empty-string-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 November 1987
Type
Goose house
OS grid reference
SX 154 689
Coordinates
50.49086, -4.60254
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The goose houses, likely dating from the 18th century, are located about 10 metres northwest of Welltown Farmhouse in Warleggan. They are built into a drystone granite rubble wall that serves as a retaining wall for the field above. There are two recesses, each approximately one metre high, featuring a flat granite lintel. Positioned across the yard from Welltown Farmhouse, these goose houses would have been used for keeping geese, which served as watchdogs.

Local climate

Goose Houses About 10 Metres North West of Welltown Farmhouse 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% 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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