Wash House and Piggery West of Lower Boskinning is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Service building.
Wash House and Piggery West of Lower Boskinning
- WRENN ID
- dusk-railing-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Service building
- Address
- Wash House and Piggery West of Lower Boskinning, Madron
- OS grid reference
- SW 458 330
- Coordinates
- 50.14287, -5.55893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a wash house, possibly originally a swill kitchen, and an adjoining piggery, dating from around the mid-19th century. It is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings and features scantle slate roofs with gable ends. The wash house has a square plan, while the piggery is L-shaped, projecting at right angles at the rear and returning parallel to the front of the wash house.
On the exterior, the north-north-west front of the wash house includes a window on the left and a doorway on the right, with another doorway almost adjacent, likely providing access to a feeding passage for the piggery. The piggery features three doorways on the right-hand return wall, and set back on the right is a three-doorway front that includes a wide blocked cartshed doorway at its far left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Wash House and Piggery West of Lower Boskinning sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No sale records on file
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- 4 Piggery Immediately North of Trelill Farmhouse
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