Foundry Workshop is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Workshop.
Foundry Workshop
- WRENN ID
- patient-sill-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Workshop
- Address
- Foundry Workshop, Wendron
- OS grid reference
- SW 692 333
- Coordinates
- 50.15543, -5.23219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The foundry workshop, built around the early 19th century, was originally a carpenter's workshop and blacksmith's shop serving local mines. It features slurried rubble walls and a hipped scantle slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan, set into the hillside at the entrance front, with a basement at the rear.
It is two storeys high over the basement, with a symmetrical north entrance front that has three windows and a wide central doorway. The entrance features 19th-century ledged doors, with the right-hand door divided. The first floor has original 16-pane hornless sash windows, while the ground floor has an original 16-pane fixed light on the right and a 20th-century window on the left. The west front has three windows and a wide opening to the middle of the basement, which includes a door and window, along with a small window on the right. There is also one original 12-pane sash window on the ground floor left.
Inside, the workshop retains its original floors and roof structure, and there is a fireplace in the rear wall.
Local climate
Foundry Workshop receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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