Former House and Adjoining Piggery at Approximately 25 Metres East of Boscarn Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. House, outbuilding.

Former House and Adjoining Piggery at Approximately 25 Metres East of Boscarn Old Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stubborn-cornice-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
House, outbuilding
OS grid reference
SW 396 269
Coordinates
50.0858, -5.64154
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a former house and adjoining piggery located approximately 25 meters east of Boscarn Old Farmhouse. The house dates from the 18th century, while the piggery was built in the mid to late 19th century. The structure features some granite ashlar, with the majority being granite rubble and granite dressings. The roofs are covered with grouted scantle slate, except for the right-hand end of the piggery, which has been replaced with corrugated asbestos. The building has gable ends, with the right-hand (south-west) gable end featuring coping stones integrated into the dressed gable masonry. There is an external ashlar stack at the opposite end, although the chimney has been removed, and a brick chimney stump is visible at the front of the outbuilding.

The overall layout is L-shaped, with a two-room-plan house that has been converted into a one-room space. In front of the left-hand side, there is a single-storey range that includes a stable, piggery, and swill kitchen. The front and rear walls of the house were partly rebuilt in the 19th century, and the current front may have originally been the rear.

The exterior of the house is two stories high, with a single-storey farm building extending at right angles from the left-hand side. The house has an irregular north-west front featuring a central doorway with a window above, another doorway towards the left, and a small window in the former waggon doorway on the right. There is a lean-to structure in front of the right-hand side and another lean-to at the right-hand end. The rear of the house has a central doorway, a window to the right of the doorway, and a small window above. The outbuilding has a regular south-west front with two low doorways for pigs in the middle, a doorway at the far left leading to the swill kitchen with a small window on its right, and a similar front for the stable on the right.

Inside, the house features a large fireplace on the left and a fireplace for the former chambers, with 19th-century roof structures.

Local climate

Former House and Adjoining Piggery at Approximately 25 Metres East of Boscarn Old 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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