Porthgwidden Clock House and Courtyard and Kitchen Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Coach house.

Porthgwidden Clock House and Courtyard and Kitchen Garden Walls

WRENN ID
watchful-corridor-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1986
Type
Coach house
Address
Porthgwidden Clock House and Courtyard and Kitchen Garden Walls, Feock
OS grid reference
SW 821 380
Coordinates
50.20217, -5.05444
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Porthgwidden Clock House, along with its courtyard and kitchen garden walls, is a coach-house, stable block, and grooms house built around 1855, with slight extensions made in the 20th century. The structure is made of slatestone rubble, featuring brick arches, quoins, jambs, and granite sills. It has dry Delabole slate roofs with projecting eaves and verges, and a pyramidal roof over the coach-house topped with a clock.

The central coach-house is double-depth, flanked by stables to the north and a grooms cottage to the south, with an additional wing extending at a right angle to the front right. The two-storey coach-house has a rounded-headed coach opening on the left and an original transomed casement window on the right, both set in cambered arched openings. Other windows are also original and feature small panes. The first floor includes a central bay loading doorway with a ledged door and a dormered gable above. The clock has faces on the west and east sides, with slate-hung sides, a moulded wooden cornice, a ramped lead roof, and a bellcote topped with an open colonnade, cornice, dome, and weather vane.

The grooms cottage on the right has a lateral stone stack with brick corners. The interior has not been inspected. The west entrance to the courtyard features stone piers with plinths, brick corners, and pyramidal granite caps topped with ball finials. Flanking rubble walls have granite copings. The north entrance is through a round-headed arch with hipped slate coping, wide eaves, and exposed rafter ends. The adjoining kitchen garden walls to the east are also made of slatestone rubble and have similar copings.

Local climate

Porthgwidden Clock House and Courtyard and Kitchen Garden Walls receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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