The Mousehole is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. House.
The Mousehole
- WRENN ID
- secret-passage-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Mousehole, Quay Street, Penzance, TR19 6PL
- OS grid reference
- SW 469 264
- Coordinates
- 50.08389, -5.53814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mousehole is an 18th-century building located on Quay Street in Mousehole. It is constructed from whitened rubble and features two storeys with a slurried slate hipped roof. The street front has two small sash windows without glazing bars and a modern recessed door to the right. The right-hand return has three irregular windows, which include both sashes and casements. The ground floor has a modern bowed shop with glazing bars. The Mousehole, along with Nos 1 to 4, forms a group of buildings.
Local climate
The Mousehole 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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