The Glen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1989. Farmhouse.
The Glen Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-portal-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Glen Farmhouse, Lezant
- OS grid reference
- SX 358 771
- Coordinates
- 50.57071, -4.31974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Glen Farmhouse is a mid-18th century farmhouse that has been divided into two cottages and is now a single house. It was extended and converted into two cottages in the mid-19th century, with later additions and alterations. The building features painted roughly coursed slate-stone with painted brick dressings on the 19th-century part and has a slate roof with ceramic cresting to the left of the ridge stack.
The original 18th-century house has been extended to the right in the 19th century, with the right part slightly projecting. The farmhouse is two storeys high. The 19th-century part has multi-paned casement windows directly below the eaves, with two windows in each section. The ground floor of the 18th-century part includes a half-glazed door under a lean-to hood on the left, a horned glazing bar sash window in the centre, and a mid-20th-century metal casement window where a doorway has been infilled on the right. The latter two openings have voussoirs and projecting keystones above their segmental heads. The 19th-century part features a four-panel door (with the top panels glazed) on the left and a 19th-century casement window on the right.
There is a prominent ridge stack, which was formerly an end stack, at the junction between the two sections, along with a stepped external end stack to the right. Attached to the left gable end is a three-bay cowhouse. Inside, the house retains several panelled and plank doors, and the right room on both floors has inset wall cupboards with carved curved shelves on the right wall.
Local climate
The Glen Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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