The Keep Approx 50 Metres East of Golden Manor is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1984. House.
The Keep Approx 50 Metres East of Golden Manor
- WRENN ID
- distant-solder-bistre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1984
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SW 921 468
- Coordinates
- 50.28486, -4.91963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Keep, located approximately 50 metres east of Golden Manor, is a small house that may have originally served as a gatehouse to Golden Manor, dating from the 16th century. The building is constructed of brick with granite quoins and dressings, featuring tile hanging, a tiled roof, and a brick chimney. It has a rectangular Tudor design with a 19th-century wing.
The house is two storeys tall with irregular openings. The entrance is situated in the wing on the right side of the east wall, accompanied by a window to the left. The rendered first floor includes a two-light casement window with horizontal panes. The east gable wall of the 16th-century section has been rebuilt on the left and features reused 16th-century arched windows in the return south wall. To the right, there is a blocked granite doorframe with a four-centred arch and a hoodmould, which has been converted into a window. The 16th-century brick diaper work above this feature is extremely rare, if not unique in Cornwall.
On the left, there are six-paned two-light casements, and above them, the gable displays patterned 19th-century tile hanging with a fishscale frieze and diamond pattern. The north wall, also from the 16th century, has a two-light mullion window in the centre, flanked by smaller blocked arched openings. The west wall is predominantly 16th century as well. Inside, the property features a slate floor, a 19th-century Cornish cast iron range, and three four-centred, chamfered arched brick features.
Local climate
The Keep Approx 50 Metres East of Golden Manor 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 86% 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 0.2°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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