Trap House and Stable at Approximately 25 Metres South West of Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Trap house, stable.
Trap House and Stable at Approximately 25 Metres South West of Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-eave-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Trap house, stable
- OS grid reference
- SW 432 372
- Coordinates
- 50.17907, -5.59755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Trap house and stable, built around the mid-19th century, are located approximately 25 meters southwest of Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse. The structure is made of granite rubble with granite dressings and features a half-hipped roof covered with grouted scantle slate. The building has a rectangular plan, with the stable on the left and the trap house on the right, both having a loft above. There is a single-storey, one-room plan extension from the 19th century that adjoins the far right. The exterior is two storeys high and includes one window on the west front. The stable has a doorway on the left, which is partly blocked, and a wider trap house doorway on the right, both featuring old ledged doors. There is also a first-floor window or pitching eye to the left of the middle. The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of an unspoiled coastal hamlet situated within the ancient field system of this area of Cornwall.
Local climate
Trap House and Stable at Approximately 25 Metres South West of Higher Porthmeor Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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