Wash House East of Bosinney is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Wash house.

Wash House East of Bosinney

WRENN ID
tall-lantern-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1987
Type
Wash house
Address
Wash House East of Bosinney, Germoe
OS grid reference
SW 584 294
Coordinates
50.11592, -5.3801
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a wash house located east of Bosinney, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features painted rubble walls, a grouted scantle slate roof, and a painted tapered round chimney at the east gable end. The structure has a single-cell plan with a doorway at the west gable end, a small window in the south wall, and a fireplace with flanking niches in the east gable end. Although it has been suggested that this building may have been a blowing house due to its proximity to a stream for water-powered bellows, its use as a wash house or bake house seems more likely. With its distinctive chimney, the building makes an important contribution to the village green in front of the Church of Saint Germoe.

Local climate

Wash House East of Bosinney receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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