Cliff House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Cliff House
- WRENN ID
- graven-banister-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cliff House, North Cliff, Penzance, TR19 6PH
- OS grid reference
- SW 469 264
- Coordinates
- 50.08379, -5.53865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cliff House is a building from the 18th or 19th century, constructed of stuccoed rubble with a slate hipped roof. It has two storeys and faces the road, featuring two windows on the upper floor, which are sash windows with moulded casings and no glazing bars. The ground floor has a large three-light window, and to the right, there is a plain doorway with a rectangular fanlight and a glazed door. The side elevation has a jettied first floor with two sash windows that include glazing bars. This building is included for its group value, as it is part of a collection of listed buildings in North Cliff that overlook the harbour.
Local climate
Cliff 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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