Couches and Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. House.
Couches and Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- crooked-attic-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Couches and Garden Wall, Philleigh
- OS grid reference
- SW 854 390
- Coordinates
- 50.21282, -5.00857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Couches and garden wall is a small house dating from the 18th century, with a garden wall to the south. The building features slatestone rubble walls and a corrugated asbestos roof, which was originally thatched, along with brick chimneys at the gable ends. It has a two-room, through passage plan and includes a later small lean-to at the rear middle. The house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical south front with three windows, although it was originally designed with two windows. There is a central doorway with a boarded door, and a 20th-century window above the door in a widened or inserted 20th-century opening. The other windows are 19th-century, consisting of 12-pane, two-light casements, with wooden lintels on the first floor that have been cemented over. Inside, the house features a pine muntin and plank screen, large internal chimney breasts, and original structural timberwork.
Local climate
Couches and Garden Wall receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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