Midlane Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Farmhouse.

Midlane Farmhouse

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Midlane Farmhouse, Laneast
OS grid reference
SX 231 844
Coordinates
50.63256, -4.50235
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Midlane Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 19th century, with later alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from slatestone rubble and features a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. The building has gable end stacks, one with a rubble shaft that has a shaped top on the left and a rendered shaft on the right.

The farmhouse has a 2-room plan with a central passage and a straight stair. The kitchen is located on the left, while a smaller parlour is on the right, with both rooms heated by gable end stacks. There is a single-storey unheated outshut along the entire rear, added in the later 19th century, and a small outhouse to the rear left, also from the later 19th century.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front. The first floor features three 2-light, 2-pane 19th-century casements. The ground floor has a 3-light, 2-pane 19th-century casement on the left and two 2-light, 2-pane 19th-century casements on the right, all with timber lintels. A later 19th-century gabled porch has a 4-pane window on the front and left side, with a 20th-century door on the right side. The left end of the building is blind and has an external weathered stack, while the right end has an external stack. The rear roof is bitumenised and forms a catslide over the outshut, which is partly roofed in corrugated asbestos. There is a 20th-century window on the right side of the outshut and a small single-storey outhouse attached to the left, featuring a window on the outer side and a door on the inner side. The outshut has three 20th-century windows.

Inside, the ground floor rooms have 19th-century ceiling beams and 20th-century fireplaces. The left room retains a 19th-century mantel over the fireplace, with a cupboard recess on each side; the left cupboard has a plank door, while the right cupboard has a door with strap hinges.

Local climate

Midlane 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 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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