Hutchen's House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. A C17-18 House. 4 related planning applications.
Hutchen's House
- WRENN ID
- white-cobalt-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- C17-18
- Address
- Hutchen's House, Mousehole Lane, Penzance, TR19 6UA
- OS grid reference
- SW 464 271
- Coordinates
- 50.08981, -5.54657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hutchen's House, formerly known as Almshouse, is a 17th to 18th century building with a datestone from 1709. It features a long range constructed from small coursed rubble and has been restored. The roof is made of slate with gable ends, and there are granite chimney stacks with cap mouldings. The house is two storeys high and has six windows. The ground floor has restored double-hung sash windows, while the first floor features 2-light casements with granite mullions. Notably, the granite mullions on the first floor have been taken from the ground floor windows. The rear elevation has largely been modernized with slate hanging. Hutchen's House is part of a group that includes the Church, Churchyard Wall, and Vicarage, along with other listed items in Mousehole Lane, excluding Nos 1 and 2 Mount View.
Local climate
Hutchen's House 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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