The King's Pipe is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1973. Incinerator.
The King's Pipe
- WRENN ID
- grim-solder-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1973
- Type
- Incinerator
- Address
- The King's Pipe, Town Quay, Falmouth
- OS grid reference
- SW 811 325
- Coordinates
- 50.15221, -5.06551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The King's Pipe is an incinerator built around 1814 for destroying contraband tobacco, associated with the nearby Custom House. It features a three-stage brick flue set on a granite ashlar plinth with a shallow battered base. The structure is square in plan, and the furnace is accessed from within the courtyard walls of the Custom House.
Local climate
The King's Pipe receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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