The Old Standard is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1970. House, shop. 12 related planning applications.
The Old Standard
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-attic-azure
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1970
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Old Standard, Keigwin Place, Penzance, TR19 6RR
- OS grid reference
- SW 468 262
- Coordinates
- 50.08256, -5.53933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Standard is probably an early 17th-century building in granite rubble. It has a steep, slurried slate roof with gable ends. The building is two storeys high and originally had three windows. The windows retain granite mullions, although most have been removed, alongside moulded jambs, lintels, and dripmoulds; they now house modern wood-framed casements with glazing bars. There are two ground-floor doorways with similar moulded jambs and lintels, as well as dripmoulds. The building is characterised by two granite chimney stacks, each with a moulded bell-top. The Old Standard forms a group with Nos 2, 5, 7, 8, and 13.
Local climate
The Old Standard 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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