Hersham Carpentry is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House, carpenter's shop.
Hersham Carpentry
- WRENN ID
- leaning-tower-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, carpenter's shop
- Address
- Hersham Carpentry, Launcells
- OS grid reference
- SS 257 076
- Coordinates
- 50.84238, -4.47619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hersham Carpentry is a house that was once a combined residence and carpenter's shop, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with a late 20th-century rear extension. The building features whitewashed rendered cob on a stone plinth and has a thatched roof, which is hipped at the left end, along with brick chimneys. Originally, the layout likely consisted of two rooms with a cross passage and an adjoining shop on the left side, which included a loft above. The current layout has stairs in the passage, and the carpenter's shop is now part of the house.
The house has a symmetrical, two-storey front with three windows and a 20th-century gabled porch. The ground floor windows are timber casements with four panes per light, while the first floor has three 2-light casements with three panes per light. There is a separate entrance to the former carpenter's shop, which has a 2-light timber casement with six panes per light, located to the right of the entrance.
Inside, the ground floor room on the right features a large fireplace with an ovolo-moulded fireplace beam and complex stops, and it previously had a cloam oven. This room also has two cross beams and axial ceiling beams. The ground floor room to the left of the passage also contains a large fireplace with a fireplace beam and a cloam oven. The roof timbers in the former shop area are pegged.
Local climate
Hersham Carpentry sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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