Lower Woon is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower Woon
- WRENN ID
- night-sill-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Woon, Roche, PL26 8PP
- OS grid reference
- SX 010 592
- Coordinates
- 50.39935, -4.80101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Woon is an early 19th-century farmhouse, with alterations made in the mid-19th century and some 20th-century additions. It is constructed of granite rubble with a slurried slate roof, featuring ridge coping tiles and substantial projecting stacks at the gable ends with short brick shafts. The farmhouse originally comprised a two-room plan with a central entrance that directly accesses the room to the left, and a stud wall dividing it from the larger room to the right. A 19th-century outshut extends to the rear of the entrance and the left-hand room, containing an unheated service room and the staircase.
The building presents as a symmetrical two-window range with early 19th-century 16-pane sash windows, each within a brick head. A central gabled porch includes a doorway with a cambered brick head and keystone, now fitted with a 20th-century glazed door, and a small single light on its right side. A single-storey, 20th-century lean-to is attached to the left side. A single light with a chamfered granite surround, blocked in slate, is located at ground floor level to the left of the front.
At the rear, a two-storey outshut is present, with a later single-storey outshut added in the angle to the left of the main building. The left side of the outshut includes a four-pane light at first floor level. The rear of the outshut has 20th-century windows at both ground and first floor levels. A single-storey shed with a corrugated iron roof is attached to the right end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lower Woon receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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