Art Gallery is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. A C18 Art gallery.
Art Gallery
- WRENN ID
- worn-loggia-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Art gallery
- Address
- Art Gallery, Fore Street, Penzance
- OS grid reference
- SW 463 285
- Coordinates
- 50.10278, -5.54905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Art Gallery is an early 18th-century building located on Newlyn Fore Street. It features a stuccoed exterior and a steep slate roof with a half-hipped end that faces the harbour. On the first floor, there is a large late 19th-century splayed bay window, with a doorway located beneath it. The side elevation facing Trewarveth Street includes a first-floor sash window and a small shop window on the ground floor, which is flanked by pilasters and a fascia. Additionally, there is a large chimney stack on the side and external stone steps leading to a first-floor doorway that has a glazed porch.
Local climate
Art Gallery 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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