Lower Penhale is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. Farmhouse.
Lower Penhale
- WRENN ID
- tall-keystone-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Penhale, St. Keyne and Trewidland
- OS grid reference
- SX 231 612
- Coordinates
- 50.4245, -4.49164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Penhale is a farmhouse dating from around the 1840s, with a mid-18th century wing at the rear. It is constructed of painted rubblestone and features a scantle slate roof with hipped ends and a gable end on the rear wing. The building has brick chimney shafts at the hipped ends and a rubblestone projecting stack with a brick shaft on the rear gable end. The layout is 'T' shaped, and the farmhouse is two storeys tall with a symmetrical three-window front. The ground floor includes a central panelled door, flanked by two 16-pane sash windows made of crown glass, which do not have horns. There are three similar windows above on the upper floor. The rear wing has 19th-century casement windows and a lean-to rubblestone porch at the angle. Additionally, there is a cloam oven projection in the gable end of the rear wing. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lower Penhale 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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