Wenfork Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1989. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Wenfork Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-minaret-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wenfork Farmhouse, Lezant, PL15 9NU
- OS grid reference
- SX 351 774
- Coordinates
- 50.5737, -4.32878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wenfork Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, dated 1616, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of roughcast slate-stone with a slate roof. The farmhouse has a three-unit plan to its main range, with a short gabled cross-wing projecting to the left (upper) end. It is two storeys high. The farmhouse features late 19th or early 20th-century casement windows, with three on the first floor of the main range directly below the eaves, and one on each side of a lean-to porch to the left of the centre, incorporating a glazed outer door and boarded inner door. The gable has casement windows on each floor with dripstones above, and a datestone reading "1616" at the apex. There is a rendered internal end stack to the right of the main range, and a prominent external lateral stack to the rear on the left, rebuilt in 19th-century red brick. Adjacent to this stack is a partially cobbed catslide outshut. The interior has been significantly altered in the 20th century. An inglenook fireplace has been infilled, and ceiling beams are concealed. Some panelled doors remain. The roof space retains surviving 17th-century chamfered principal rafters beneath a raised eave line, including within the cross-wing.
Local climate
Wenfork Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 4 transactions 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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