The Baulking House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. House. 1 related planning application.

The Baulking House

WRENN ID
patient-steel-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 June 1952
Type
House
Address
The Baulking House, Hainwalk, St. Ives, TR26 2AF
OS grid reference
SW 523 397
Coordinates
50.20576, -5.47174
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Baulking House is a building from around the early 19th century. It features painted rubble stone walls and a brick front, topped with a gabled roof covered in scantle slating. The structure has two storeys and includes two horizontal sliding sash windows on the ground floor, with a loft door positioned above. Located high up, it served as a huer's lookout, where watchers monitored for pilchard shoals and directed the seine boats.

Local climate

The Baulking House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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