Glenlea the Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Glenlea the Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-pediment-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Glenlea the Old Farmhouse, Dobwalls
- OS grid reference
- SX 196 651
- Coordinates
- 50.45796, -4.54194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The house, now divided into two dwellings, dates from 1890, as indicated by the datestone "C M H AD 1890". It is constructed of snecked rubblestone with a slate roof over the ground floor, and rendered above. The roof has decorative sprockets below the eaves and plain barge boards. Parallel roof sections with double gable ends are linked by a central ridge, and feature rendered brick axial stacks in the centre. The house has a double depth plan with an outshut to the rear.
The east front is almost symmetrical with three windows. The ground floor has two tall windows with eight panes each and a central, partially glazed door, all beneath slate hoods with shaped timber brackets. A continuous slate pentice hood runs above the ground floor. The first floor has three wooden-framed openings with slate hoods and timber cills, also supported by shaped timber brackets. Two of these contain small two-light windows, and the central one holds the datestone. The roof sections above the first floor windows are raked at a lower pitch. The gable ends on both floors have two four-light casements with glazing bars, slate hoods, and moulded brackets. A door beneath a slate hood, matching that on the front, is found in the left-hand rear gable end. An outshut, a lean-to addition, was added circa the early 20th century. Cast-iron rainwater gutters and drainpipes are present, complete with castellated hoppers and trefoiled brackets. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Glenlea the Old Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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