Lower Tresmorn is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Lower Tresmorn

WRENN ID
second-lancet-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 October 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Tresmorn, St Gennys, St. Gennys
OS grid reference
SX 159 977
Coordinates
50.74982, -4.6101
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Tresmorn is a farmhouse that likely has a 16th century core, with alterations from the 17th century and an addition from the late 19th or early 20th century. The building is constructed from rendered slatestone rubble and features a slate roof. The original structure is one room deep and has a through passage plan that separates the hall from the kitchen. There is a blocked fireplace and a truncated stack on the rear wall, along with a turret to the right that houses the stairs. The right gable end projects outward, and the kitchen includes a stack and a cloam oven.

The farmhouse underwent significant remodelling in the late 17th century, which included a rear outshut and a large lateral stack on the front wall. A 20th century extension to the outshut is positioned at right angles to the main range.

To the left of the main range is a two-storey, two-bay addition with a hipped roof, which is taller than the original structure by half a storey. The early range is two storeys high and three windows wide, featuring a projecting lateral stack that is shouldered on the right side and partly obscured by a slate-roofed, enclosed, off-centre porch. The windows have been replaced with 20th century casements. The roof was raised around 1920.

Inside, there are grooves for a cross passage screen on a large roll-moulded ceiling beam with bar stops. Other ceiling beams also have bar stops and scratch mouldings. A massive granite fireplace is located at the lateral stack, complete with a chamfered lintel and jambs, the right-hand jamb featuring a diamond stop. The ground floor room on the right is accessed through a door with an ogee lintel and an incised cross. The stair turret, which has slatestone stairs, is entered through a door with an ogee lintel as well. Much of the early wall plaster remains intact on the ground floor. The roof was inaccessible at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Lower Tresmorn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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