Coastguard Station Flats Peninhay is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1993. House. 2 related planning applications.
Coastguard Station Flats Peninhay
- WRENN ID
- strange-flue-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Coastguard Station Flats Peninhay, 1, 2 and 3, North Road, Looe, PL13 2EQ
- OS grid reference
- SX 252 534
- Coordinates
- 50.35515, -4.4573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coastguard Station Flats and Nos 1, 2, and 3 Peninhay, built between 1892 and 1893, consist of a coastguard station and houses. The structure features limestone rubble walls with some stone dressings and a dry slate roof, which includes a central crosswing gable and stone and brick axial stacks on the far right. This double-depth plan terrace comprises eight houses, with a central pair flanking a carriage entrance that has an observation room above. The building is two storeys high and presents a slightly asymmetrical range of 17 windows.
It retains original horned sash windows with glazing bars, and the central entrance gateway is adorned with a moulded four-centred arch. Above this, there is a corbelled canted oriel window, with small flanking windows on each floor and one-window fronts on either side. To the left, there are two pairs of houses, with the left-hand pair featuring central doorways and the other pair having two small windows between the doorways. The house on the left is slightly taller with a two-window range, while the house on the right has a shallow gable projection and two windows on each floor. Various 20th-century doors have been added. The building is a complete and impressive example of its type.
Local climate
Coastguard Station Flats Peninhay sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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