West Lane Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1989. House.

West Lane Farmhouse

WRENN ID
leaning-sandstone-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1989
Type
House
Address
West Lane Farmhouse, Egloskerry
OS grid reference
SX 259 853
Coordinates
50.6414, -4.46227
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Lane Farmhouse is a house dating from around the 17th century, which was extended in the 18th century or early 19th century, and again in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of rendered and painted stone rubble and cob, topped with a rag slate roof that has a gable end on the right and a hipped end on the left. The left end features a 20th-century brick chimney, while the right end has a projecting stone rubble chimney with a brick shaft.

The farmhouse has a two-room and cross passage plan, heated by end stacks, with a smaller room on the right. The entrance is located to the right of the center, with a small window directly to the left, which may have originally lit a small larder or cold store. An outshut was added across the rear in the 18th or early 19th century, and the cottage was extended to the left in the mid-20th century, which included a small outshut and the demolition of part of the left-hand end wall of the earlier range.

The exterior is two stories high with an asymmetrical two-window front. The entrance, located to the right of center, features a circa 19th-century lean-to stone rubble porch with a 20th-century door. To the right of the entrance is a 19th or 20th-century two-light casement window, while a small square window with a single pane of glass is directly to the left, followed by another two-light casement window. On the first floor, there is a 19th or 20th-century two-light casement window on the left and an early 19th-century two-light casement on the right. The outshut on the left has 20th-century glazed doors. The rear elevation remains unspoiled, featuring a rag slate cat-slide roof.

Inside, there is a 17th-century chamfered lintel above the right-hand fireplace. The roof structure is also from the 17th century, featuring A-frames with chamfered cambered collars that are partly halved, lap-jointed, and pegged on the face of the principals.

Local climate

West Lane 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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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