Foster Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. A C18 Hall.
Foster Hall
- WRENN ID
- young-terrace-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Hall
- Address
- Foster Hall, 20, New Street, Penzance
- OS grid reference
- SW 474 301
- Coordinates
- 50.11793, -5.53428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foster Hall, located at 20 Penzance New Street, is an earlier 18th-century building constructed from coursed granite rubble. It features a slurried slate hipped roof with wide eaves and stands two storeys tall. The façade includes three large sash windows with margin lights and a plain central doorway. Foster Hall is part of a group with Nos 20 to 24 (consecutive) and No 4 Abbey Street.
Local climate
Foster Hall 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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