Walls at Place House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. A Medieval Walls. 1 related planning application.
Walls at Place House
- WRENN ID
- wild-cupola-mist
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1974
- Type
- Walls
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Walls at Place House, Fowey, PL23 1BS
- OS grid reference
- SX 125 517
- Coordinates
- 50.33551, -4.63603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls at Place House are perimeter walls dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, with remodeling that occurred around 1840. They are constructed from killas rubble and granite ashlar, featuring dressed granite battlements that are ramped where there are changes in level. The walls include four-centred arched granite doorways: one is an original moulded doorway with carved spandrels and a square hoodmould leading to a pedestrian gate into Church Avenue, while the other is a 19th-century doorway with sunk spandrels providing access to a carriage entrance into Cobb Well Hill. These walls occupy a prominent position in the center of the old town.
Local climate
Walls at Place House 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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