Boscarn Old Farmhouse (At South West 395270) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Farmhouse.

Boscarn Old Farmhouse (At South West 395270)

WRENN ID
rough-hammer-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Boscarn Old Farmhouse (At South West 395270), St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
OS grid reference
SW 395 269
Coordinates
50.08581, -5.64189
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Boscarn Old Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse that was extended in the late 18th or early 19th century. The front and the upper part of the right gable end are made of granite ashlar, while the rest of the building is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings. It has a grouted scantle slate roof with dressed granite stacks at the gable ends. The house has a two-room plan, featuring a parlour on the left and a slightly larger kitchen/living room on the right, with a lobby entrance to the stairs in between. There is a later pantry outshut behind the kitchen, primarily built of masonry likely sourced from the kitchen's back wall.

The exterior is two storeys high and features a nearly symmetrical three-window front facing southeast, with a doorway located centrally among the windows. The door is a 20th-century ledged design, and the windows are late 19th-century four-pane horned sashes, with the lower lights being hornless. The original window openings are small.

Inside, the kitchen and entrance hall have granite flagstones, and there are 18th-century ovolo-moulded beams. The interior also includes two 18th-century two-panel doors with fielded panels, some plank and muntin partitions, a 19th-century cast-iron Cornish range, and a 19th-century built-in dresser.

Local climate

Boscarn Old Farmhouse (At South West 395270) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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