Farmhouse on West Side of Settlement at Penpont is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Farmhouse on West Side of Settlement at Penpont

WRENN ID
turning-gallery-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 November 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Farmhouse on West Side of Settlement at Penpont, St. Breward, PL30 4QN
OS grid reference
SX 086 744
Coordinates
50.53864, -4.70159
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, with extensions added around the late 16th or early 17th century. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble with a rag slate roof featuring gable ends. A stone rubble end stack, including a cloam oven projection, rises from the right side of the building. There are also stone rubble axial and gable end stacks on the earlier left-hand range.

The original layout of this part of the house was likely a single-room plan with an end stack on the left, and a stair projection to the front, which was probably the remaining lower end of a larger house. Around the late 17th or early 18th century, a new range was built to the right, potentially on the site of the original passage and upper end. The plan of this later addition is uncertain, possibly either of two-room and cross passage design with end stacks and a kitchen at the upper end on the right, or a double-depth plan where all the service rooms were built at the same time. The later range's front elevation was likely remodelled in the late 19th century, creating a symmetrical facade with five windows, the ground floor windows having segmental arched openings and four-pane sashes. A central 20th-century part-glazed door now occupies the front. The left-hand range has a 20th-century casement window and a stair projection with a small two-light mullion window and a one-light casement above. The rear elevation has a gable end to the stair projection. The interior is currently inaccessible.

Local climate

Farmhouse on West Side of Settlement at Penpont sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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