Butter Well About 10 Metres South of Lower Tregantle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Butter well.
Butter Well About 10 Metres South of Lower Tregantle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tilted-pier-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Butter well
- OS grid reference
- SX 061 591
- Coordinates
- 50.40009, -4.72852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Butter well or cooler located about 10 metres south of Lower Tregantle Farmhouse, dating from the early to mid-17th century. This structure is made of granite and is set into a bank. It has a circular plan, measuring approximately 1 metre in diameter, with granite walls, floor, and roof. The door opening is about 50 centimetres wide and 70 centimetres high, featuring granite jambs and a lintel. There are no shelves inside, and there is no water beneath for cooling, making its exact function unclear.
Local climate
Butter Well About 10 Metres South of Lower Tregantle Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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 0.2°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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