Higher Denzell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Higher Denzell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- iron-garret-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Denzell Farmhouse, Mawgan-In-Pydar, TR8 4HG
- OS grid reference
- SW 894 668
- Coordinates
- 50.46345, -4.96814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Denzell Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the mid to late 19th century, with some 20th-century alterations and additions. It is constructed from slatestone rubble with stone dressings and features slate roofs with ridge tiles and gable ends. The building has an unusual asymmetrical design, consisting of a two-storey block on the left and a three-storey block on the right, resembling a tower. This block has a two-span roof with a stack at each end, featuring brick shafts. There is also a single-storey wing at the right end, likely used for service, which was originally heated from a rear lateral stack. A 20th-century single-storey addition is located at the front left.
The exterior displays an idiosyncratic Gothic style. The two-storey block on the left has a single-storey 20th-century addition at the front. At the first-floor level, there is a structure resembling a midstrey, featuring open pointed arches on the sides and a hipped roof, with a 20th-century three-light window inside. There are two-light windows on both sides, each with a rusticated rubble pointed arch above. Buttresses on the right and left have a pierced pointed arch in the buttress on the left. A two-light casement window is present at ground floor level on the right.
The three-storey block to the right has a small casement window at ground floor, a three-light casement window at first floor with a four-centred rubble arch, and a triple lancet window at the second floor, with the central light being taller. The single-storey block at the end right features a three-light window with a segmental arch at ground floor and a loft above with two tall gabled dormers, each containing casements. The gable end on the right has a loading door with a segmental arch. At the rear, there is random fenestration, and the stack behind the single-storey block has been truncated. The interior is not accessible.
Local climate
Higher Denzell Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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