42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1973. Town house. 2 related planning applications.
42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- steep-cobalt-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1973
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 42, High Street, Falmouth, TR11 2AF
- OS grid reference
- SW 806 330
- Coordinates
- 50.15725, -5.07199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 High Street is an early 19th-century town house, later adapted for use as a shop. The building is constructed of stucco on studwork, with slatehanging to the upper portion of the left-hand return, and has a dry slate roof with a rendered stack set forward of the ridge on the right. It follows a double-depth plan with a substantial rear wing. The house is three storeys high and features a two-window front. Original 12-pane hornless sash windows remain. The ground floor has a mid-19th century cast-iron shop front, spanning the full width of the building and including end pilasters with consoles above a sloping fascia. The shop front has a central, canted window with quadrant sidelights, slender mullions, and basket-arched lights; the central mullion has been removed. A doorway is located on the left-hand side of the building with an overlight and a four-panel door. A shop doorway is on the right, with an overlight and a glazed door, and a quadrant light to its right. The interior of the building was not inspected.
Local climate
42, High Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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