Barn and Horse Engine House 50 Metres to North of Trefrew Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1988. A C19 Barn.
Barn and Horse Engine House 50 Metres to North of Trefrew Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusk-bracket-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SX 108 846
- Coordinates
- 50.63098, -4.67571
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a barn located approximately 50 metres north of Trefrew Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century, with a horse engine house added in the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with granite quoins and features a rag slate roof that has hipped ends, along with canted ends on the engine house at the rear.
The barn has a layout that includes shippons on the ground floor and a threshing floor above. The horse engine house, which was added to the rear, also has canted ends. The ground floor has been partly remodeled to include stables for four horses on the left, with a coach house added as a lean-to on the left side. The first floor consists of a wool room to the left, a central threshing floor, and a granary and hay store to the right.
The exterior of the building is two storeys high. The front elevation features a lean-to outshot on the left, with the ground floor displaying a window and plank doors on the left, a central plank door, and two doors to the right. The first floor has plank double doors with a slate hood in the centre, a row of pigeon holes to the left, and a window to the right. At the rear, the horse engine house has a canted end.
Local climate
Barn and Horse Engine House 50 Metres to North of Trefrew Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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