Tolcarne Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. House.

Tolcarne Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
tall-spire-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1988
Type
House
Address
Tolcarne Farm Cottage, Wendron
OS grid reference
SW 685 347
Coordinates
50.16787, -5.24231
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tolcarne Farm Cottage is a small house, possibly dating from the 17th or 18th century, which incorporates some 17th-century masonry from a former house that may have been on the same site. The roof was raised in the 20th century. The cottage has painted rubble walls and an asbestos slate roof, with dressed granite stacks at the gable ends. The 18th-century part of the cottage has two rooms, which are now combined into one, with a parlour on the left and a hall/kitchen on the right. There is a later 18th-century or 19th-century heated lean-to on the right and 19th-century lean-tos at the rear. To the left, there is a ruinous former house or bakehouse that features a domed granite oven in its fireplace.

The exterior is two storeys high and features a nearly symmetrical two-window south front with a central doorway. There is a 20th-century porch and a 19th-century inner ledged door. The windows are 20th-century horned sashes, with original openings on the ground floor and enlarged openings on the first floor.

Inside, there are three granite fireplaces, likely from the 18th century. The large fireplace in the original hall/kitchen includes a domed oven, a straight chamfered lintel, and a hollow chamfered jamb on the left. The parlour fireplace has one chamfered jamb. Other visible features in the interior are from the 19th or 20th centuries.

Local climate

Tolcarne Farm Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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