Range of barns about 15 metres west of Mennabroom Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1987. A C17 Barns.

Range of barns about 15 metres west of Mennabroom Farmhouse

WRENN ID
waiting-cinder-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 November 1987
Type
Barns
OS grid reference
SX 162 705
Coordinates
50.50599, -4.59236
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a range of barns located about 15 metres west of Mennabroom Farmhouse. The central barn is possibly from the 17th century, with an 18th-century barn attached to the right and a later range, likely from the 18th to 19th century, attached to the left. The barns are constructed of granite rubble and have corrugated asbestos roofs with gable ends; the 18th-century barn features a hipped roof.

The central building was likely originally a shippon, with openings only at the front. The barn to the right is an 18th-century bank barn of two storeys, while the left end has a range of single-storey outbuildings arranged in an L-plan.

On the exterior, the central shippon has a gable end that slightly projects beyond the front of the barn to the right. There is a doorway on the right end, with a blocked loading door above it featuring a timber lintel. The front has three ventilation slits with splayed reveals internally and roughly hewn granite lintels. A mounting block is attached to the front, and there is a ventilation slit at the rear. The barn on the right has two storeys; the front includes a ground-floor window on the left and a doorway, while the first floor has a loading door with a timber lintel on the right. The right end has a ground-floor door, and the gable end is clad in corrugated iron at the upper level. At the rear, there is a loading door that corresponds to the front door. There is a straight joint to the left of the shippon, connecting it to the single-storey range, which has two stable doors with timber lintels and a small central single light with a granite lintel. The end roof is hipped, and there is a blind end wall. The shippon and the attached single-storey building feature 19th-century roof structures.

Local climate

Range of barns about 15 metres west of Mennabroom 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 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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