Barn About 20 Metres East of Birchenhayes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Barn.

Barn About 20 Metres East of Birchenhayes Farmhouse

WRENN ID
guardian-gargoyle-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1987
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SX 399 660
Coordinates
50.47198, -4.25726
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a bank barn located about 20 metres east of Birchenhayes Farmhouse, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, with a later 19th-century addition. It is constructed from slatestone rubble with stone dressings and features a hipped slate roof with ridge tiles.

The barn is built into the bank at the rear, with a shippon on the ground floor and a barn above. There is a later 19th-century open-fronted linhay attached to the rear left, along with a lean-to set in the angle to the rear right. The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front. The ground floor includes three round-arched shippon doorways with dressed stone heads, two of which have ventilator doors. There is a loading doorway with double doors and a pentice hood above it. To the left, an external stone stair leads to an upper door, with the hood above it continuing from the loading door. There is also a single door with a cambered stone head on the ground floor to the left. The right end of the barn is blind, while the left end features a ground floor window with a stone head and a first floor window with a timber lintel. At the rear, there is a loading door with a hood that corresponds to the front door. The single storey lean-to is located in the angle of the linhay to the rear left, which is open-fronted and has crested ridge tiles on the roof. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Barn About 20 Metres East of Birchenhayes Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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