Lower Porthmeor Farmhouse, Rear Courtyard Walls and Front Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Lower Porthmeor Farmhouse, Rear Courtyard Walls and Front Garden Walls

WRENN ID
pale-shingle-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Porthmeor Farmhouse, Rear Courtyard Walls and Front Garden Walls, Zennor, TR20 8YX
OS grid reference
SW 430 371
Coordinates
50.17889, -5.59972
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Porthmeor Farmhouse, along with its rear courtyard walls and front garden walls, dates from around 1800. The farmhouse features a granite ashlar front, while the rest is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings. The front and rear wing have a slurried scantle slate roof, and the rear is covered with corrugated asbestos. Brick chimneys are located at the gable ends, and there is an external stone lateral stack on the left side of the rear wing.

The farmhouse has a two-room plan, with a larger kitchen on the left and a parlour on the right, connected by a cross passage that leads to the stairs. There is a two-storey, one-room plan dairy with an apple loft at right angles to the rear left, and a lean-to at the rear right. The apple loft can be accessed by an external flight of steps that adjoins the high rear courtyard walls. An additional outbuilding is attached to the right side.

The exterior is two storeys high and features a nearly symmetrical three-window front facing southeast. The windows and doorway are positioned towards the right, with the doorway centrally located within the fenestration. The ground floor openings are slightly wider, and there is a 20th-century door with an overlight. The windows are late 19th-century horned sashes.

Inside, the farmhouse is fairly complete and unaltered, retaining original stairs and floor partitions. Notable features include a chimney-piece with a dentilled cornice in the first-floor right-hand room, which includes a late 19th-century horseshoe grate. The rectangular front garden is enclosed by a granite moorstone wall with monolithic gate piers. The rear left wing is built over a wall of coursed masonry that extends northwest, forming the lower boundary of the farmyard. This property is part of an unspoiled coastal hamlet set within the ancient field system of this area of Cornwall.

Local climate

Lower Porthmeor Farmhouse, Rear Courtyard Walls and Front Garden Walls 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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