Skewberries Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. A Early C19 Farmhouse.

Skewberries Farmhouse

WRENN ID
carved-pillar-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Skewberries Farmhouse, Kea
OS grid reference
SW 809 414
Coordinates
50.23222, -5.07214
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Skewberries Farmhouse is a toll house that has been converted into a farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century. It features painted killas rubble walls with stone-keyed brick arches and a scantle slate roof that is polygonal over the canted front. The building has a rendered lateral brick chimney on the left side wall and a brick chimney on the rear gable end. Cast iron ogee gutters are present at the eaves.

The layout consists of one room wide and two rooms deep, with a reception room at the front that has a central entrance and a narrower service room behind it. There is a single-storey gable-ended wing from the late 19th century that extends at right angles to the east of the service room. The farmhouse is two storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-window south front featuring a canted bay. The central doorway has a 20th-century door with a blind fanlight above it. The flanking windows are 12-pane, 2-light casements with original intersecting glazing and arched tympana above. The window above the doorway has simpler tracery in its tympanum, while the flanking windows are blind. All openings are topped with shallow two-centred arches. The interior has not been inspected. This farmhouse is notable for being one of the few toll houses in the area that has avoided demolition for road widening or significant 20th-century alterations.

Local climate

Skewberries Farmhouse 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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