Polmesk Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Farmhouse.
Polmesk Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- western-fireplace-hazel
- 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
- Polmesk Farmhouse, Philleigh
- OS grid reference
- SW 862 396
- Coordinates
- 50.21825, -4.99788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Polmesk Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse that was extended in the 19th century. It features slatestone rubble walls and a hipped asbestos slate roof at the front, with brick chimneys on the side walls and gable-ended slate roofs on the rear wings. The original layout consisted of two rooms with a central stair. An early 19th-century rear wing and outshut are located at the angle, along with a single-storey pantry wing in the middle of the east wall. The building has two storeys and a slightly irregular south front with three windows, which has been partly rebuilt in the 20th century. The central doorway has a six-panel door with flush beaded bottom panels. The left window is a hornless 16-pane sash, with a 12-pane hornless sash above it, a 16-pane sash to the right, and a 20-pane sash above that, slightly to the right. There is an early 19th-century 12-pane, two-light casement window on the rear wall of the outshut, along with two additional early 19th-century casement windows on the east wall. The ground floor features a three-light casement with 24 panes, and the first floor has a centre-hung two-light casement with 24 panes. Blocked dove holes are present to the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Polmesk Farmhouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% 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 0.3°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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