Bohortha Farmhouse and Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Bohortha Farmhouse and Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
- woven-solder-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bohortha Farmhouse and Garden Walls, Gerrans, TR2 5EY
- OS grid reference
- SW 860 323
- Coordinates
- 50.15217, -4.99627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bohortha Farmhouse and its garden walls are a notable early 19th-century structure with a 17th-century rear wing. The farmhouse features a stucco front on the south and east sides, while the other walls are made of rubble and possibly cob under render in the wing. It has a Delabole dry slate hipped roof with brick chimneys on the side walls. The main part of the building is double depth, with a central staircase connecting to a single-depth rear wing that is positioned at right angles to the west.
The farmhouse is two storeys high with a two-window south front, showcasing tall 20-pane horned sash windows on the ground floor and 16-pane horned sash windows on the first floor. The building has pilaster quoins on both the south and the three-window east entrance front, which features a central doorway with an original louvered porch and an eight-panelled door. To the left of the doorway, there is a blind window, while the remaining windows are 16-pane hornless sashes. There is also a round-headed original stair window on the west wall.
The rear wing, which is the earlier part of the house, has a stone chimney at the upper, or west end. The eaves were raised in the 19th century, and doveholes were added to the south side. The north wall includes a doorway with an old planked door on the left, a three-light small paned casement, and a further wide opening.
Inside the main part of the farmhouse, there is an original dog-leg staircase, six-panel doors, a fireplace surround with consoles, a resited pantry screen with turned balusters, and marble-like limestone flags in the vestibule and kitchen, which are said to be from the Torbay area. Some stop-chamfered beams survive in the earlier part of the building.
The listing also includes the rubble garden walls to the south front, which feature a low granite-coped wall with a rail and dowel wooden fence, along with a similar gate that has curved bracing beneath the lock rail.
Local climate
Bohortha Farmhouse and Garden Walls receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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