Gadles Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Gadles Farmhouse

WRENN ID
watchful-chamber-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Gadles Farmhouse, Ponsanooth, TR3 7HS
OS grid reference
SW 762 364
Coordinates
50.18609, -5.13572
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gadles Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the 18th century and remodeled around the early 19th century. It is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings and features a slurried scantle slate roof with brick chimneys at the gable ends. The right-hand chimney is situated over a large external rubble chimney breast. The building has a double-depth plan, consisting of two front rooms—a parlour on the left and a kitchen on the right—flanking an entrance hall that leads to a stair hall. To the left is an early 19th-century lean-to, and at the rear is a later 19th-century porch, along with a wall featuring observation or ventilation slits at the rear left corner.

The exterior is two storeys high and nearly symmetrical, with a three-window front and a doorway and window slightly left of the center. The original or early 19th-century doorway and window openings are present, including a six-panel door with the top four panels later glazed. The 19th-century wooden porch has an arched doorway and quatrefoils in the frieze. Most windows are early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sashes, except for a 20th-century window above the doorway and a 12-pane sash on the front of the lean-to. The rear of the building remains unaltered since the 19th century, and the stair window features an 18th-century upper light with thick glazing bars.

Inside, the farmhouse showcases early 19th-century carpentry and joinery details, including a dog-leg stair with stick balusters and a moulded handrail over a turned newel. There is a tall narrow settle in the back kitchen and window shutters in the front rooms. The back kitchen contains a partly blocked furze cupboard and a blocked oven to the right of its fireplace.

Local climate

Gadles Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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