West Penstroda and Garden Walls to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.

West Penstroda and Garden Walls to Front

WRENN ID
burning-forge-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 November 1987
Type
House
Address
West Penstroda and Garden Walls to Front, Blisland, PL30 4HL
OS grid reference
SX 117 724
Coordinates
50.52117, -4.65713
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Penstroda is a house with garden walls at the front, dating from the early 17th century, possibly with earlier origins. It is constructed of granite ashlar and stone rubble, featuring large granite quoins. The slate roof has gable ends, and the right-hand gable end has moulded granite parapet coping along with a moulded granite stack from the 17th century. The left-hand gable end has a projecting stone rubble end stack with a brick shaft.

The original layout of the house is uncertain, and it may have been larger in the past. The ground slopes down to the left. The house has a two-room and through passage plan with an entrance porch near the center. Although the interior was not accessible during the survey in 1986, the owner mentioned a possibly 17th-century panelled screen on the right-hand side of the passage and panelling that may have been reused around the stair, likely added on the left side of the passage. A rear outshot containing a dairy and back kitchen was added in the 18th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that may have two or three windows; the left side is obscured by dense foliage. There is a single-storey granite porch from the 17th century with a slate roof and a chamfered segmental arch, possibly featuring diagonal stops. To the right of the porch is probably a three-light mullion window with a hood mould, and above it is a 16-pane sash window. The left side of the house is not fully visible. The front garden wall is made of granite rubble with chamfered granite coping, ramped on the left side. An interior inspection is likely to reveal several interesting features in this particularly unaltered and fine house, which was probably built for a family of at least Yeoman status.

Local climate

West Penstroda and Garden Walls to Front 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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